The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 55

“The king of this country declares I must die a horrible death if I cannot find the princess’s ring which he has thrown into the brook,” answered the prince.

Who acts: king, prince · What happens: declare, die, not find, throw, answer · To what, where: horrible death, ring, brook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, prince), 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	_	7 declares	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declares	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
7	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 declares	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 death	det
12	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 death	amod
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 die	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ring	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 princess	case
22	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 thrown	nsubj:pass
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thrown	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 thrown	aux
26	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ring	acl:relcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 brook	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brook	det
29	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thrown	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 declares	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 declares	punct
32	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declares	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prince	det
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 answered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 declares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other in a quote	present	the king of this country			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die in a quote	must	the prince = prince	a horrible death		tree rules
3	not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	the prince = prince	the princess's ring		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
4	throw in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the princess's ring	into the brook result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into brook=Result
5	answer speech: assert	past	the prince			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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