The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 302

He gave himself out as a famous physician who had come from distant lands, and he promised that he would cure the Princess if only he might be left alone with her.

Who acts: patience, famous physician · What happens: give out, come, promise, cure, leave · To what, where: patience, distant lands, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patience, famous physician), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gave	iobj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 physician	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 physician	det
7	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 physician	amod
8	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 physician	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 lands	case
13	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lands	amod
14	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 promised	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 promised	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 promised	nsubj
18	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cure	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cure	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cure	aux
22	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 promised	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cure	obj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 left	mark
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 left	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 left	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 left	aux:pass
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cure	advcl
31	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 left	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give out	past	patience		patience		as a famous physician	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	come	past · perfect	a famous physician			distant lands		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location
3	promise speech: promise	past	patience					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cure	would	patience	the Princess				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source
5	leave a condition, not said to happen	might · passive		patience			with Princess; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with she=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 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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