The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 124

Then the hero betook himself to the King, who was obliged now, whether he liked it or not, to keep his promise, and hand him over his daughter and half his kingdom.

Who acts: hero · What happens: betake, oblige, like, keep, hand, promise · To what, where: hero, King, prisoner, promise

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 (hero), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 betook	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hero	det
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 betook	nsubj
4	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 betook	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 betook	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obliged	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 obliged	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 obliged	aux:pass
12	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 King	acl
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 obliged	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 liked	punct
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 liked	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 liked	nsubj
17	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 betook	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 liked	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 not	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 liked	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 betook	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 promise	nmod:poss
25	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hand	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hand	cc
28	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 keep	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hand	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 daughter	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hand	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 kingdom	cc
34	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	36 kingdom	det:predet
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 kingdom	nmod:poss
36	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	betake	past	the hero	hero	then	to the King	tree rules
2	oblige	past · passive		the King	now		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	like	past	hero	prisoner			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	hero's promise			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	hand	infinitive	the hero not said here	hero		over hero's daughter and hero's kingdom	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	promise		hero				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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