The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 68

This plan did not please him; he said: ‘It is not right to lay a kingdom waste and to destroy a palace so that I may attain my desire.

Who acts: plan, Quimus, It, I, my · What happens: not please, say, not be, lay, destroy, attain · To what, where: Quimus, kingdom waste, palace, desire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, Quimus, It, I), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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