The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 113

The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told his aunt that he would not be so cruel as to kill all three.

Who acts: Sultan, other · What happens: not detect, tell, not be, kill · To what, where: difference, aunt, three · 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 (Sultan, other), 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 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 detect	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 detect	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 detect	advmod
5	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 difference	det
7	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 detect	obj
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 difference	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 detect	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 aunt	nmod:poss
15	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cruel	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cruel	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cruel	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 cruel	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cruel	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 cruel	advmod
22	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	advcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 kill	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 kill	mark
25	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cruel	advcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 three	det
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 kill	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 detect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not detect	could	the Sultan	any difference		between brothers = brother	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	other		other's aunt		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient
3	not is	would	other			cruel property	tree rules
4	kill	to-infinitive	other not said here	all three			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme

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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