Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 26

"Two weeks you shall have," said the king; "but if then you fail to answer me, you shall lose your head, and all your lands shall be mine."

Who acts: you, king, lands · What happens: have, say, fail, not answer, lose, be · To what, where: king, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, lands), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
2	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obl:unmarked
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fail	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fail	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 then	mark
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fail	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 fail	nsubj
18	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 answer	mark
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fail	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 answer	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lose	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 lose	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 lose	aux
25	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lose	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mine	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 mine	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 lands	det:predet
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lands	nmod:poss
32	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mine	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 mine	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 mine	cop
35	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lose	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 lose	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	shall	you			week	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fail in a quote	present	you				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not answer speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the king = king		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
5	lose in a quote	shall	you	your head			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
6	is a in a quote	shall	your lands	the king = 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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