The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 30
Then the King promised him the same punishment and the same reward that he had promised his brother.
Who acts: King, state · What happens: promise · To what, where: same punishment, state, same reward, brother
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, state), 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 promised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 punishment | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 punishment | amod |
| 8 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reward | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reward | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reward | amod |
| 12 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 punishment | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 promised | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 promised | aux |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 reward | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 promised | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the King | the same punishment and the same reward | state | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal punishment=Theme | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | state | the same reward not said here | state's brother | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent brother=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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