The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 45

He also told her how he had been obliged to pledge his word to give the creature the first thing which met him outside his castle gate, and he felt very sad at the thought that she had been the first thing to meet him.

Who acts: Jack, first thing, daughter · What happens: tell, oblige, pledge, give, meet, feel · To what, where: daughter, Jack, word, creature, thought, first thing · 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 (Jack, first thing, daughter), 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	3 told	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 obliged	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 obliged	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obliged	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 obliged	aux:pass
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pledge	mark
11	pledge	pledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 obliged	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 word	nmod:poss
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pledge	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pledge	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creature	det
17	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 met	nsubj
22	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thing	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 met	obj
24	outside	outside	ADP	_	27 gate	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 gate	nmod:poss
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gate	compound
27	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 met	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 felt	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 felt	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 felt	nsubj
31	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 sad	advmod
33	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 felt	xcomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 thought	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 thought	det
36	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 felt	obl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 thing	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thing	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 thing	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 thing	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 thing	det
42	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 thing	amod
43	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 felt	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 meet	mark
45	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 thing	acl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 meet	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jack		daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	oblige	past · perfect · passive		Jack				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	pledge	to-infinitive		Jack's word				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent word=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give	to-infinitive		the creature				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient thing=Theme
5	meet	past	the first thing	Jack			outside Jack's castle gate	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	feel	past	Jack			the thought	sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	is a	past · perfect	daughter	the first thing				tree rules
8	meet	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Jack				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
9	word		Jack					nom word «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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