The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 29

He then threatened the Princess, until at length she was forced to promise to say that it was he who had rescued her, for he told her that if she did not he would kill her.

Who acts: Ritter, Princess · What happens: threaten, force, promise, say, rescue, tell · To what, where: Princess, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Ritter, Princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threatened	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 threatened	advmod
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threatened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forced	punct
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 forced	mark
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 length	case
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forced	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forced	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 forced	aux:pass
12	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 threatened	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 promise	mark
14	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forced	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promise	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 rescued	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rescued	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rescued	aux:pass
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rescued	nsubj:pass
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 rescued	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rescued	aux
23	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 say	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rescued	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 told	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 forced	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 kill	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 did	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 kill	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 did	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 kill	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 kill	aux
37	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	ccomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 kill	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threatened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	threaten	past	Ritter	the Princess			then	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
2	force	past · passive		Princess		length		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	Princess not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	rescue	past · perfect · passive		length				tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	Ritter		Princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	kill	would · past · do-support	Ritter	Princess				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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