The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 75

Then the youth was declared to be free, and the people elected him for their king; and the stable helper drowned himself from envy, for, after all, if it had not been for him the young man would have remained poor all the days of his life.

Who acts: people, stable helper, helper · What happens: declare, be, elect, drown, not be, remain · To what, where: youth, envy

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (people, stable helper, helper), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 youth	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declared	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declared	aux:pass
5	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 free	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 free	cop
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 declared	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 elected	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 elected	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 elected	nsubj
13	elected	elect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declared	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 elected	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 king	nmod:poss
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 elected	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 drowned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drowned	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 helper	det
21	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 helper	amod
22	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drowned	nsubj
23	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declared	parataxis
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 drowned	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 envy	case
26	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drowned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 all	case
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 for	punct
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 drowned	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 remained	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 him	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 him	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 him	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 him	advmod
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 him	cop
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 remained	nsubj:pass
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 man	amod
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 remained	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 remained	aux
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 remained	aux
45	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 drowned	conj
46	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 remained	xcomp
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 days	det:predet
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 days	det
49	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 remained	obl:unmarked
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 life	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 life	nmod:poss
52	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 days	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · passive		the youth				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	is	to-infinitive					free property	tree rules
3	elect	past	the people	youth			for people's king	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	drown	past	the stable helper	youth	envy		for all	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	helper				for youth	tree rules
6	remain	would · perfect · passive		youth		day	poor property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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