More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 26

Well, King John, as you know, was a very bad king, and he couldn't brook the idea of any one in his kingdom, however holy he might be, being honoured more than he.

Who acts: you, John, King · What happens: know, be, not brook, honour · To what, where: bad king, idea, King

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, John, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 king	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 John	nmod:desc
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 king	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 know	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 John	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 king	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 king	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 bad	advmod
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 king	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brook	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brook	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 brook	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 brook	advmod
20	brook	brook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 king	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 idea	det
22	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brook	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 idea	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 kingdom	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 kingdom	nmod:poss
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 holy	punct
30	however	however	ADV	_	31 holy	advmod
31	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brook	parataxis
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 be	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 holy	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 honoured	punct
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 honoured	aux:pass
37	honoured	honour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 brook	conj
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	40 he	advmod
39	than	than	ADP	_	38 more	fixed
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 honoured	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	John King	a bad king	tree rules
3	not brook	could	King	the idea of any one in King's kingdom	tree rules
4	be	might	King		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	honour	gerund · passive	King not said here	King	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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