The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 11

But as she wanted very much to go home to her father, she promised to do what he wished.

Who acts: lassie, king · What happens: want, go, promise, do, wish

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lassie, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 promised	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 wanted	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 promised	advcl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 promised	nsubj
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promised	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 wished	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	lassie		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	lassie not said here	to lassie's father; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
3	promise speech: promise	past	lassie		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	lassie not said here		tree rules
5	wish	past	king		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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