The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 44

Then the old man found himself obliged to fulfil his promise, though he had had no intention of doing so, and had only desired to get his beard back.

Who acts: old man, man, intention · What happens: find, oblige, fulfil, have, do, desire · To what, where: man, promise, intention, beard

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, intention), 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	5 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 found	obj
7	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 found	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fulfil	mark
9	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obliged	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 promise	nmod:poss
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fulfil	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	aux
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fulfil	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 intention	det
18	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 doing	mark
20	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 intention	acl
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 doing	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 desired	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 desired	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 desired	aux
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 desired	advmod
26	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 found	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 desired	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 beard	nmod:poss
30	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	28 get	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	find	past	the old man	man	then	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
2	oblige	participle	man not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
3	fulfil	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's promise		tree rules
4	have	past · perfect	man	no intention		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient
5	do	gerund	no intention not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	desire	past · perfect	the old man not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man's beard		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beard=Stimulus
8	promise		man			nom promise «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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