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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 123

Then the seventh Simon stepped back a little, cleared his throat, and said: “My trade, King Archidej, is of such a kind that the man who follows it in your kingdom generally loses his life and has no hopes of pardon.

Who acts: seventh Simon, trade, man, that, My, pardon · What happens: step back, clear, say, be, follow, lose · To what, where: little, throat, kingdom, life, hopes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh Simon, trade, man, that), 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

advmoddetamodnsubjadvmoddetobl:unmarkedpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctccconjpunctpunctnmod:possnsubjpunctapposflatpunctcopcasedet:predetdetccompnsubjdetnsubjnsubjacl:relclobjcasenmod:possobladvmodparataxisnmod:possobjccconjdetobjcasenmodpunctrootThenADVtheDETseventhADJSimonPROPNsteppedVERBbackADVaDETlittleADJ,PUNCTclearedVERBhisPRONthroatNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTMyPRONtradeNOUN,PUNCTKingPROPNArchidejPROPN,PUNCTisAUXofADPsuchDETaDETkindNOUNthatPRONtheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONfollowsVERBitPRONinADPyourPRONkingdomNOUNgenerallyADVlosesVERBhisPRONlifeNOUNandCCONJhasVERBnoDEThopesNOUNofADPpardonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem5 steppedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Simondet
3seventhseventhADJDegree=Pos4 Simonamod
4SimonSimonPROPNNumber=Sing5 steppednsubj
5steppedstepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6backbackADV_5 steppedadvmod
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 littledet
8littlelittleADJDegree=Pos5 steppedobl:unmarked
9,,PUNCT_10 clearedpunct
10clearedclearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 steppedconj
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 throatnmod:poss
12throatthroatNOUNNumber=Sing10 clearedobj
13,,PUNCT_15 saidpunct
14andandCCONJ_15 saidcc
15saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 steppedconj
16::PUNCT_19 tradepunct
17“"PUNCT_19 tradepunct
18MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 tradenmod:poss
19tradetradeNOUNNumber=Sing28 kindnsubj
20,,PUNCT_21 Kingpunct
21KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 tradeappos
22ArchidejArchidejPROPNNumber=Sing21 Kingflat
23,,PUNCT_19 tradepunct
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 kindcop
25ofofADP_28 kindcase
26suchsuchDETPronType=Ind28 kinddet:predet
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 kinddet
28kindkindNOUNNumber=Sing15 saidccomp
29thatthatPRONPronType=Rel39 losesnsubj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 mandet
31manmanNOUNNumber=Sing39 losesnsubj
32whowhoPRONPronType=Rel33 followsnsubj
33followsfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 manacl:relcl
34ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 followsobj
35ininADP_37 kingdomcase
36youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 kingdomnmod:poss
37kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing33 followsobl
38generallygenerallyADV_39 losesadvmod
39losesloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 kindparataxis
40hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 lifenmod:poss
41lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing39 losesobj
42andandCCONJ_43 hascc
43hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 losesconj
44nonoDETPronType=Neg45 hopesdet
45hopeshopeNOUNNumber=Plur43 hasobj
46ofofADP_47 pardoncase
47pardonpardonNOUNNumber=Sing45 hopesnmod
48..PUNCT_5 steppedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1step backpastthe seventh Simona littlethenvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2clearpastthe seventh Simon not said hereSimon's throatvn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent throat=Source
3say speech: assertpastthe seventh Simon not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4is in a quotepresentMy tradeof such kindtree rules
5follow in a quotepresentthe manthroatyour kingdomvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in kingdom=Trajectory
6lose in a quotepresentthatSimon's lifegenerally propertyvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
7have in a quotepresentthat not said hereno hopes of pardonvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
8trade in a quoteMynom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent
9hope in a quotepardonnom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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