The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 27

This time the King felt obliged to keep his promise, and calling his daughter to him, he said, ‘My dear Grannonia,’ for that was the Princess’s name, ‘more as a joke than anything else, I demanded what seemed to me impossibilities from your bridegroom, but now that he has done all I required, I am bound to stick to my part of the bargain.

Who acts: King, that, I · What happens: feel, oblige, keep, call, say, be · To what, where: promise, daughter, King, impossibilities, me, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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, that, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felt	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 felt	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 obliged	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 promise	nmod:poss
10	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 calling	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 calling	cc
13	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 felt	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calling	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 calling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Grannonia	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Grannonia	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Grannonia	nmod:poss
24	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Grannonia	amod
25	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Grannonia	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 Grannonia	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	34 name	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 name	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 name	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Princess	det
32	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 name	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Princess	case
34	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 more	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 more	punct
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 said	nsubj
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 joke	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 joke	det
40	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 more	obl
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 anything	case
42	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 joke	nmod
43	else	else	ADV	_	42 anything	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 demanded	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 demanded	nsubj
46	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	conj
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 seemed	nsubj
48	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 demanded	ccomp
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 me	case
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 seemed	obl
51	impossibilities	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 seemed	xcomp
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 bridegroom	case
53	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 bridegroom	nmod:poss
54	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 impossibilities	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 done	punct
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 done	cc
57	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 done	advmod
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 done	mark
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 done	nsubj
60	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 done	aux
61	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 demanded	conj
62	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 done	obj
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 required	nsubj
64	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 all	acl:relcl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 bound	punct
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 bound	nsubj
67	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 bound	cop
68	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	conj
69	to	to	PART	_	70 stick	mark
70	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 bound	xcomp
71	to	to	ADP	_	73 part	case
72	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 part	nmod:poss
73	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 stick	obl
74	of	of	ADP	_	76 bargain	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 bargain	det
76	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 part	nmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the King			time		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	oblige	participle	the King not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King's promise				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
4	call	gerund	the King not said here	King's daughter	King			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic to he=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	that				for the Princess's name	tree rules
7	demand speech: request	past	I					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
8	seem	past		impossibilities from your bridegroom	me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	do	present · perfect	King	all		now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
10	require	past	I					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
11	is	present	I				bound property	tree rules
12	stick	to-infinitive	I not said here				to my part of the bargain	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to part=Co-Patient
13	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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