The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 137

‘Most certainly not,’ answered Stan, going on with his digging, and the dragon, in dread lest he should fulfil his threat, tried what bribes would do, and in the end had again to promise seven sacks of ducats before Stan would agree to leave the brook alone and let him carry the water into the house.

Who acts: Most, Stan, dragon, bribes · What happens: answer, go on, fulfil, try, do, have · To what, where: Stan, threat, end, seven sacks, brook, water

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 (Most, Stan, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 answered	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 not	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Most	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 answered	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 digging	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 digging	nmod:poss
14	digging	digging	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tried	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tried	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dread	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 dread	case
21	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragon	conj
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	25 fulfil	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fulfil	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fulfil	aux
25	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dread	acl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 threat	nmod:poss
27	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fulfil	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dragon	punct
29	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	parataxis
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 tried	obj
31	bribes	bribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 do	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 what	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obl
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tried	conj
40	again	again	ADV	_	39 had	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 promise	mark
42	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
43	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 sacks	nummod
44	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 promise	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 ducats	case
46	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 sacks	nmod
47	before	before	SCONJ	_	50 agree	mark
48	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 agree	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 agree	aux
50	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 promise	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 leave	mark
52	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 agree	xcomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 brook	det
54	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 leave	obj
55	alone	alone	ADV	_	52 leave	advmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 let	cc
57	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 leave	conj
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 let	obj
59	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 let	xcomp
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 water	det
61	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 carry	obj
62	into	into	ADP	_	64 house	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 house	det
64	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 carry	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Most		Stan				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stan=Eventuality
2	go on	gerund	Most not said here					with Stan's digging	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fulfil	should	Stan	Stan's threat					tree rules
4	try	past	the dragon and dread						vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	do	would	bribes						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	the dragon and dread not said here				in the end; again		tree rules
7	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	the dragon and dread not said here	seven sacks of ducats					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
8	agree speech: agree	would	Stan						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Stan not said here	the brook				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Theme
10	let	infinitive	Stan not said here	Stan					tree rules
11	carry	infinitive	Stan not said here	the water		the house			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
12	dig		Stan						nom digging «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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