The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 55

But even now she could not bend her proud heart, and she said, ‘Though he has executed these two tasks, yet he shall not be my husband till he brings me an apple from the tree of life.’

Who acts: suitor, King · What happens: not bend, say, execute, not be, bring · To what, where: proud heart, two tasks, husband, apple, me, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (suitor, King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 bend	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 now	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bend	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bend	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bend	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bend	advmod
7	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
9	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heart	amod
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bend	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bend	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 executed	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 executed	punct
17	Though	though	SCONJ	_	20 executed	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 executed	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 executed	aux
20	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 tasks	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 tasks	nummod
23	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 executed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 husband	punct
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	31 husband	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 husband	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 husband	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 husband	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 husband	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 husband	nmod:poss
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 executed	obl
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 brings	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brings	nsubj
34	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 husband	acl:relcl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 brings	obj
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 apple	det
37	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brings	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 tree	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brings	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 life	case
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tree	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bend	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 bend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not bend	could	suitor	suitor's proud heart			now	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent heart=Material
2	say speech: assert	past	suitor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	execute	present · perfect	King	this two tasks				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient
4	not is a	shall	King	my husband				tree rules
5	bring	present	King	a apple	me	the tree of life		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination apple=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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