The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 117

But the dragon, in dread lest Stan should fulfil his threats, tried what bribes could do, and in the end had to promise Stan seven sacks of ducats before he was suffered to throw back the club himself.

Who acts: dragon, bribes · What happens: fulfil, try, do, have, promise, suffer · To what, where: threats, end, seven sacks, Stan, club

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, bribes), 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	_	10 fulfil	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fulfil	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dread	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 dread	case
6	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragon	conj
7	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 Stan	case
8	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dread	nmod
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fulfil	aux
10	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 threats	nmod:poss
12	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fulfil	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fulfil	parataxis
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 tried	obj
16	bribes	bribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 do	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tried	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 promise	mark
26	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 promise	obj
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 sacks	nummod
29	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 promise	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 ducats	case
31	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sacks	nmod
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 suffered	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 suffered	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 suffered	aux:pass
35	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 promise	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 throw	mark
37	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 suffered	xcomp
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 throw	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 club	det
40	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 throw	obj
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 throw	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fulfil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fulfil	should	the dragon and dread lest Stan	Stan's threats				tree rules
2	try	past						vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	do	could	bribes					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past				in the end		tree rules
5	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive		seven sacks of ducats	Stan			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent stan=Goal sack=Theme
6	suffer	past · passive		Stan				tree rules
7	throw back	to-infinitive		the club			Stan obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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