The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 106

But the king would only grant them leave to stop on condition that, before the winter was ended, they should give him some fresh proof of the courage of which he had heard so much.

Who acts: king, winter, people · What happens: grant, leave, stop, be, give, hear · To what, where: people, that, condition, fresh proof, king, courage

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, winter, people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 grant	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grant	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grant	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 grant	advmod
6	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grant	obj
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grant	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 condition	case
12	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	obl
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stop	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ended	punct
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 ended	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 winter	det
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ended	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ended	cop
19	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stop	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ended	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 proof	det
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 proof	amod
27	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 courage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 courage	det
30	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proof	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	aux
35	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 courage	acl:relcl
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADV	_	35 heard	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grant	would	the king	people				tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	the king not said here					tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive	the king not said here	that		condition		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality
4	is	past	the winter				ended property	tree rules
5	give	should	people	some fresh proof of the courage	king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient proof=Theme
6	hear	past · perfect	king				of the courage	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of which=Stimulus
7	proof			the courage				nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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