The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 94

So the old lord embraced his son, and promised that he should inherit all his possessions, and he put to death the two elder ones, who had deceived him and had tried to slay their own brother.

Who acts: old lord, lord, two elder ones · What happens: embrace, promise, inherit, put, deceive, try · To what, where: son, possessions, two elder ones, lord, own brother

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lord, lord, two elder ones), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 embraced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lord	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lord	amod
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embraced	nsubj
5	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embraced	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promised	cc
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 embraced	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 inherit	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 inherit	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 inherit	aux
14	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promised	xcomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 possessions	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 possessions	nmod:poss
17	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 inherit	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 embraced	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ones	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 ones	nummod
26	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ones	amod
27	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 deceived	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 deceived	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 deceived	aux
31	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 ones	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 deceived	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tried	cc
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 tried	aux
35	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 deceived	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 slay	mark
37	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 tried	xcomp
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 brother	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 brother	amod
40	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 slay	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	the old lord	lord's son		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent
2	promise speech: promise	past	the old lord not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	inherit not said to happen	should	lord	lord's possessions		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
4	put	past	lord	the two elder ones	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
5	deceive	past · perfect	the two elder ones	lord		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	try	past · perfect	the two elder ones not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	slay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the two elder ones not said here	possessions's own brother		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
8	possess		lord			nom possession «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 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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