The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 53

The latter was very humble and apologetic, and promised never to make war any more, to pay a large sum of money, and altogether do whatever his conqueror wished.

Who acts: latter, conqueror · What happens: be, promise, not make, pay, do, wish · To what, where: war, large sum, whatever, money

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, conqueror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 latter	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 humble	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 humble	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 humble	advmod
5	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 apologetic	cc
7	apologetic	apologetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 humble	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promised	cc
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 humble	conj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 make	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promised	xcomp
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 make	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pay	mark
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sum	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sum	amod
22	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 money	case
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sum	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
27	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	28 do	advmod
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 humble	conj
29	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 wished	obj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 conqueror	nmod:poss
31	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wished	nsubj
32	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 do	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 humble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the latter		humble property	tree rules
2	be		the latter not said here			tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	the latter not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the latter not said here	war		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
5	pay	to-infinitive	the latter not said here	a large sum of money		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Asset
6	do	infinitive	the latter not said here		altogether property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wish	past	Moti's conqueror	whatever		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme
8	sum			money		nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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