--- title: This time the King felt obliged to keep his promise, and calling his… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This time the King felt obliged to keep his promise, and calling his daughter to him, he said, ‘My dear Grannonia,’ for that was the Princess’s name, ‘more as a joke than anything else, I demanded what seemed to me impossibilities from your bridegroom, but now that he has done all I required, I am b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/) / 27 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 27 This time the King felt obliged to keep his promise, and calling his daughter to him, he said, ‘My dear Grannonia,’ for that was the Princess’s name, ‘more as a joke than anything else, I demanded what seemed to me impossibilities from your bridegroom, but now that he has done all I required, I am bound to stick to my part of the bargain. **Who acts:** King, that, I · **What happens:** feel, oblige, keep, call, say, be · **To what, where:** promise, daughter, King, impossibilities, me, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:25:27 # text = This time the King felt obliged to keep his promise, and calling his daughter to him, he said, ‘My dear Grannonia,’ for that was the Princess’s name, ‘more as a joke than anything else, I demanded what seemed to me impossibilities from your bridegroom, but now that he has done all I required, I am bound to stick to my part of the bargain. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Grannonia Grannonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 nsubj _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 nmod _ _ 43 else else ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 47 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 48 nsubj _ _ 48 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ _ 51 impossibilities impossibility NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 xcomp _ _ 52 from from ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 56 but but CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 57 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 61 advmod _ _ 58 that that SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 59 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 60 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 61 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 conj _ _ 62 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 61 obj _ _ 63 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 required require VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 66 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 67 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 68 cop _ _ 68 bound bound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 69 to to PART TO _ 70 mark _ _ 70 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 68 xcomp _ _ 71 to to ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 73 nmod:poss _ _ 73 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obl _ _ 74 of of ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 75 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 76 bargain bargain NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | the King | | | | time | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **oblige** | participle | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | King's promise | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 4 | **call** | gerund | the King *not said here* | King's daughter | King | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic to he=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | | for the Princess's name | tree rules | | 7 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | I | | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 8 | **seem** | past | | impossibilities from your bridegroom | me | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **do** | present · perfect | King | all | | | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 10 | **require** | past | I | | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **is** | present | I | | | | | bound *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **stick** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | to my part of the bargain | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to part=Co-Patient | | 13 | **promise** | | King | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/28/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)