The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 91
But at length the king—determined to get the youth into his clutches—pacified her by promising her a pension large enough to keep her in comfort; and Nur Mahomed, to his own great delight, was duly enrolled in the king’s army.
Who acts: story · What happens: get, pacify, promise, keep, enroll, clutch · To what, where: youth, clutches, discipline, pension, comfort, Nur
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 determined | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
| 7 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 clutches | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pacified | punct |
| 16 | pacified | pacify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 determined | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pacified | obj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 promising | mark |
| 19 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pacified | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 promising | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pension | det |
| 22 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 promising | obj |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pension | amod |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 large | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 large | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 comfort | case |
| 29 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keep | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 enrolled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 enrolled | cc |
| 32 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 enrolled | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Nur | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 delight | punct |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 delight | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 delight | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 delight | amod |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 delight | amod |
| 39 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Nur | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Nur | punct |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 enrolled | aux:pass |
| 42 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 43 enrolled | advmod |
| 43 | enrolled | enroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 determined | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 army | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 king | det |
| 46 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 army | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 king | case |
| 48 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 enrolled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the youth | story's clutches | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pacify | past | discipline | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | a pension | discipline | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal pension=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | discipline | comfort | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in comfort=Location | ||||
| 5 | enroll | past · passive | Nur | in the king's army goal; duly property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in army=Goal | ||||
| 6 | clutch | story | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | delight | story | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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