The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 11

The king was very sorry when he heard this, for he loved the boy dearly; but he thought it would never do to keep anyone near him who would not do as he was bid.

Who acts: king, boy, head · What happens: be, hear, love, think, not do, keep · To what, where: this, boy, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, boy, head), 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	5 sorry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sorry	advmod
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	parataxis
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loved	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 loved	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loved	nsubj
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loved	obj
16	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	13 loved	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorry	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 do	advmod
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 do	xcomp
27	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 keep	obj
28	near	near	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 keep	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 do	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 do	advmod
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 keep	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 bid	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bid	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bid	aux:pass
37	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 do	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		sorry property	tree rules
2	hear	past	king	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	love	past	king	the boy	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	boy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not do	would	head			tree rules
6	keep	to-infinitive	head not said here	anyone	near boy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme near he=Location
7	not do	would				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bid	past · passive		boy		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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