The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 22
The King, too, was amazed at the sight, but still he couldn’t make up his mind to part with his daughter, so when Cola-Mattheo came to remind him of his promise he replied, ‘I have still a third demand to make.
Who acts: King, Cola, I · What happens: be, not make up, come, remind, reply, have · To what, where: sight, mind, King, promise, third demand
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Cola, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 amazed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 King | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amazed | cop |
| 7 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amazed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 make | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amazed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 make | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 part | mark |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 daughter | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 came | advmod |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 came | mark |
| 29 | Cola | Cola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 came | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mattheo | punct |
| 31 | Mattheo | Mattheo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Cola | flat |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amazed | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 remind | mark |
| 34 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 came | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 remind | iobj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 promise | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 promise | nmod:poss |
| 38 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 remind | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 replied | nsubj |
| 40 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 promise | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 42 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 have | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 remind | advcl |
| 45 | still | still | ADV | _ | 48 demand | advmod |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 demand | det |
| 47 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 48 demand | amod |
| 48 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 have | obj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 make | mark |
| 50 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 demand | acl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | the sight | amazed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not make up | could | King | King's mind | still | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 3 | come | past | Cola | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | Cola not said here | King | of King's promise | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of promise=Topic | |||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | King | King's promise not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent promise=Topic | ||||
| 6 | have | present | I | a third demand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Patient | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | a third demand not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 8 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | promise | King | nom promise «communication 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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