The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 7

Thereupon he gave up the list in despair and hurried to greet those whom he had succeeded in asking, imploring their goodwill so humbly that most of them were touched, and promised that they would do his son no harm.

Who acts: page, Fairies · What happens: give up, hurry, greet, succeed, ask, implore · To what, where: list, despair, those, goodwill, most, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page, Fairies), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gave	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 list	det
6	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 despair	case
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hurried	cc
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 greet	mark
12	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hurried	xcomp
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 greet	obj
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 succeeded	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 succeeded	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 succeeded	aux
17	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 those	acl:relcl
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 asking	mark
19	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 succeeded	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 imploring	punct
21	imploring	implore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 asking	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 goodwill	nmod:poss
23	goodwill	goodwill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 imploring	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 humbly	advmod
25	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	21 imploring	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 touched	mark
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 touched	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 most	nmod
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 touched	aux:pass
31	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 imploring	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 promised	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 promised	cc
34	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 do	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 do	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 do	aux
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 promised	ccomp
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 son	nmod:poss
40	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	obj
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 harm	det
42	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	page	the list	despair	thereupon property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Source
2	hurry	past	page not said here				tree rules
3	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	page not said here	those			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	succeed	past · perfect	page				tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	page not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	implore	gerund	page not said here	Fairies's goodwill		humbly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodwill=Recipient
7	touch	past · passive		most of Fairies			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
8	promise speech: promise	past	page not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	do	would	Fairies = fairy	page's son			tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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