The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 46

And so, though he did not want to at all, he was obliged to promise that he would let her go.

Who acts: King, Percinet · What happens: not want, oblige, promise, let, go · To what, where: all, King, Percinet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Percinet), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 want	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 want	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 want	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 want	advmod
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	8 want	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 want	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 obliged	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 obliged	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 obliged	aux:pass
15	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 want	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 promise	mark
17	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 obliged	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 let	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 let	aux
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promise	ccomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	King		all	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	oblige	past · passive		King		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	would	King	Percinet		tree rules
5	go	infinitive	Percinet not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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