The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 30

Then the King remembered Jack my Hedgehog, and he told his daughter how he had been obliged to give a written promise to bestow whatever he first met when he got home on an extraordinary creature which had shown him the way.

Who acts: King, extraordinary creature · What happens: remember, tell, oblige, give, write, bestow · To what, where: Jack, daughter, King, written promise, whatever, extraordinary creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, extraordinary creature), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 remembered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Hedgehog	nmod:poss
7	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 obliged	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 obliged	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 obliged	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 obliged	aux:pass
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 obliged	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 promise	det
22	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 promise	amod
23	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bestow	mark
25	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 promise	acl
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 bestow	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 met	nsubj
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 met	advmod
29	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whatever	acl:relcl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 got	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 met	advcl
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 got	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 creature	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 creature	det
36	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 creature	amod
37	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 shown	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 shown	aux
40	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 creature	acl:relcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shown	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shown	obl:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	the King	Jack			then		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	King		King's daughter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
3	oblige	past · perfect · passive		King					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	give	to-infinitive		a written promise					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bestow	to-infinitive		whatever					tree rules
7	meet	past	King					first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	past	King			a extraordinary creature		home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on creature=Source
9	show	past · perfect	a extraordinary creature		King			the way obl:unmarked	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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