The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 61

“Your Majesty’s ear,” answered the knight; and as the king could not go back from his word, he cut it off and gave it to him.

Who acts: ear, king, knight · What happens: answer, not go back, cut off, give, word · To what, where: knight, word, ear

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 (ear, king, knight), 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	_	5 ear	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Majesty	nmod:poss
3	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ear	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Majesty	case
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ear	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ear	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knight	det
10	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 word	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 word	nmod:poss
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	nsubj
25	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Your Majesty's ear		the knight		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality
2	not go back	could	the king			knight's word	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	cut off	past	knight	ear			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
4	give	past	knight not said here	ear	knight		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient
5	word		knight				nom word «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 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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