The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 108

The little tailor now demanded the promised reward from the King, but he repented his promise, and pondered once more how he could rid himself of the hero.

Who acts: little tailor, tailor · What happens: demand, promise, repent, ponder, rid · To what, where: promised reward, promise, tailor

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little tailor, tailor), 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	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demanded	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 demanded	advmod
5	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reward	det
7	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reward	amod
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demanded	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reward	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 repented	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 repented	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 repented	nsubj
15	repented	repent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 demanded	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 promise	nmod:poss
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repented	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pondered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pondered	cc
20	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 demanded	conj
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 pondered	advmod
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 rid	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rid	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 rid	aux
26	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pondered	advcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 rid	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hero	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hero	det
30	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rid	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	the little tailor	the promised reward	now	from the King	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme reward=Precondition from king=Source
2	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	repent	past	tailor	tailor's promise			tree rules
4	ponder	past	the little tailor not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rid	could	tailor	tailor		of the hero	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Source of hero=Theme
6	promise		tailor				nom promise «communication transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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