The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 72

I promised this young woman that if she should cure you, to bestow your hand and heart on her, and seeing that Heaven has been gracious, you must fulfil the promise I made her; for gratitude alone forces me to pay this debt.’

Who acts: I, woman, seeing, you, me · What happens: promise, cure, bestow, see, be, fulfil · To what, where: young woman, you, hand, Heaven, promise, debt

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 (I, woman, seeing, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 woman	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cure	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 cure	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cure	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cure	aux
10	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cure	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bestow	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bestow	mark
14	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cure	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bestow	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heart	cc
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hand	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bestow	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gracious	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gracious	cc
23	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 gracious	csubj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 Heaven	mark
25	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 seeing	obj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 gracious	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 gracious	cop
28	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 promised	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fulfil	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 fulfil	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fulfil	aux
32	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 gracious	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 promise	det
34	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fulfil	obj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 promise	acl:relcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 pay	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 forces	case
40	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 forces	compound
41	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gratitude	amod
42	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pay	obl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 pay	nsubj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 pay	mark
45	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	parataxis
46	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 debt	det
47	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pay	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 pay	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	I		this young woman		vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cure a condition, not said to happen	should	woman	you			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source
3	bestow	to-infinitive	woman not said here	your hand and heart		on woman	tree rules
4	see	gerund		Heaven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heaven=Stimulus
5	is	present · perfect	seeing			gracious property	tree rules
6	fulfil	must	you	the promise			tree rules
7	make	past	I	Heaven			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
8	pay	to-infinitive	me	this debt		for gratitude forces	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent debt=Asset for force=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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