The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 46

After this it was impossible to break the promise she had made so publicly, so the King ordered out the state coach to take her and the tailor to church to be married.

Who acts: Princess, King · What happens: be, break, make, order out, take, marry · To what, where: promise, state coach, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 impossible	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 impossible	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impossible	cop
5	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 break	mark
7	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 impossible	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 promise	det
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 break	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 promise	acl:relcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 publicly	advmod
14	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	12 made	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ordered	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 ordered	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ordered	nsubj
19	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impossible	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 ordered	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coach	det
22	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 coach	compound
23	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ordered	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 take	mark
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ordered	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tailor	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tailor	det
29	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 her	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 church	mark
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 married	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 married	aux:pass
34	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 church	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				after this	impossible property	tree rules
2	break	to-infinitive		the promise				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
3	make	past · perfect	Princess	the promise not said here			publicly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
4	order out	past	the King	the state coach				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive	the King not said here		Princess		church obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
6	marry	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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