The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 25

The king replied: “Such knowledge would be of no benefit to you, for if I granted it to you and you told any one of it, you would immediately die; ask me rather for whatever else you would most like to possess, and it shall be yours.”

Who acts: king, Such knowledge, you, knowledge · What happens: reply, be, grant, tell, die, ask · To what, where: you, knowledge, one, king, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Such knowledge, you, knowledge), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 benefit	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 benefit	punct
6	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knowledge	amod
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 benefit	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 benefit	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 benefit	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 benefit	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 benefit	det
12	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 benefit	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 granted	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 granted	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 granted	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 granted	nsubj
19	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 granted	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 granted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 granted	conj
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 die	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 die	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 die	aux
33	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	34 die	advmod
34	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 ask	punct
36	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 ask	iobj
38	rather	rather	ADV	_	36 ask	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 whatever	case
40	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 ask	conj
41	else	else	ADV	_	40 whatever	advmod
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 would	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 whatever	acl:relcl
44	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	40 whatever	advmod
45	like	like	SCONJ	_	47 possess	mark
46	to	to	PART	_	47 possess	mark
47	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 whatever	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 yours	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 yours	cc
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 yours	nsubj
51	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 yours	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 yours	cop
53	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 replied	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	would	Such knowledge		you	of no benefit	tree rules
3	grant a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the king = king	knowledge	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Goal
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	you	any one of knowledge			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
5	die in a quote	would	you			immediately property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive			the king = king		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	possess in a quote	to-infinitive					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
8	is a in a quote	shall	knowledge	yours			tree rules

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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