The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 22

It was easy enough now for the servant to prove his innocence, and the King, feeling he had done him an injustice, and anxious to make some amends, desired him to ask any favour he chose, and promised to give him the highest post at Court he could wish for.

Who acts: servant, King, haste · What happens: be, prove, feel, do, make, desire · To what, where: innocence, King, amends, haste, favour, highest post

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, King, haste), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 easy	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 easy	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 prove	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prove	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 prove	mark
10	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	csubj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 innocence	nmod:poss
12	innocence	innocence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prove	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 anxious	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 anxious	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 anxious	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feeling	punct
18	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 King	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 feeling	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	obj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 injustice	det
24	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 anxious	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 anxious	cc
27	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 easy	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 anxious	advcl
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 amends	det
31	amends	amend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 desired	punct
33	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	parataxis
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 desired	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 ask	mark
36	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 desired	advcl
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 favour	det
38	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ask	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 chose	nsubj
40	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 favour	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 promised	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 promised	cc
43	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 give	mark
45	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 promised	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 give	iobj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 post	det
48	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 post	amod
49	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 give	obj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 Court	case
51	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 post	nmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 wish	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 wish	aux
54	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 post	acl:relcl
55	for	for	ADP	_	54 wish	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					now	easy, enough property	tree rules
2	prove	to-infinitive	the servant	haste's innocence					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Theme
3	feel	gerund	the King not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	haste	King					tree rules
5	be		the King						tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	the King not said here	some amends					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product
7	desire	past		haste					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
8	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		any favour					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient
9	choose	past	haste	any favour not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme
10	promise speech: promise	past							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		the highest post	haste	Court			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient post=Theme at court=Asset
12	wish	could	haste	the highest post not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot post=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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