The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 10

Then a servant fetched in the polluted, blue-eyed headsman, who asked: “Whose sun of life has come near its setting?” took the prince by the arm, placed him upon the cloth of execution, and then, all merciless and stony hearted, cut his head from his body and hung it on the battlements.

Who acts: blue eyed headsman, sun, servant, all · What happens: fetch, be, ask, come, take, place · To what, where: servant, blue eyed headsman, setting, prince, cloth, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue eyed headsman, sun, servant, all), 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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