The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 20

“Very well,” answered the king; “but if you fail, you will pay for it with your head!” and signed that both should leave his presence.

Who acts: king, you, both · What happens: answer, fail, pay, sign, leave · To what, where: presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, both), 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 answered	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 pay	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 fail	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 fail	nsubj
14	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pay	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fail	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 pay	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pay	aux
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pay	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pay	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 signed	cc
27	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 leave	mark
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 leave	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 leave	aux
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 signed	ccomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 presence	nmod:poss
33	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leave	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past	the king		well property	tree rules
2	fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pay in a quote	future	you		for bread; with your head	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
4	sign	past	the king not said here			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	leave	should	both	king's presence		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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