The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 30

The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: “Well, if you want him so much you can have him; only never let me see his face again.”

Who acts: sword, you · What happens: clank, say, want, have, not let, see · To what, where: sword, king, face · 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 (sword, you), 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 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
3	clanked	clank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sword	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clanked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
16	Well	well	INTJ	_	26 have	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Well	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 want	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 have	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 want	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	20 want	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 let	advmod
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 let	advmod
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 let	obj
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 face	nmod:poss
35	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clank	participle		the sword not said here	time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the sword			angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	king			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	have in a quote	can	you	king			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	not let in a quote	infinitive		the sword = sword			tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive	the sword = sword not said here	king's face	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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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