The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 76

The king listened silently, and when the boy had done, he said quietly: “If I find that your story is not true I will have you thrown into a cask of pitch.”

Who acts: king, boy, story, you · What happens: listen, do, say, find, not be, have · To what, where: you, cask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, boy, story, 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	silently	silently	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 done	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
15	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	20 find	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 find	nsubj
20	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 have	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 true	mark
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 story	nmod:poss
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 true	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 true	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 true	advmod
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 find	advcl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 have	xcomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 cask	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cask	det
34	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrown	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 pitch	case
36	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cask	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the king		silently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · perfect	the boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	boy		quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	boy			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present	your story		true property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	future	boy	you		tree rules
7	throw in a quote	participle	you not said here		into a cask of pitch result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into cask=Result

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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