The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 116

Still the King didn’t want to give him the promised reward and made a third demand.

Who acts: King · What happens: not want, give, promise, make · To what, where: promised reward, King, third demand

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 (King), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reward	det
11	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 reward	amod
12	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 give	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 demand	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 demand	amod
17	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the King			still	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the promised reward	King		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reward=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	the King not said here	a third demand			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product

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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