The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 73

The Pig was not satisfied with mere promises, but insisted that the wedding should take place within a week, and would not go away till the King had sworn a royal oath upon it.

Who acts: Pig, wedding, King · What happens: not be, insist, take, not go away, swear · To what, where: place, royal oath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pig, wedding, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pig	det
2	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 satisfied	advmod
5	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 promises	case
7	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promises	compound
8	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 satisfied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 insisted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 insisted	cc
11	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 take	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wedding	det
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 insisted	ccomp
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	within	within	ADP	_	20 week	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 go	advmod
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 sworn	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sworn	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sworn	aux
31	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 go	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 oath	det
33	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 oath	amod
34	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sworn	obj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 oath	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Pig			with mere promises; satisfied property	tree rules
2	insist speech: other	past	the Pig not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	should	the wedding	place	week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	not go away	would	the wedding not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swear	past · perfect	the King	a royal oath		upon wedding	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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