The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 13

But the bridegroom’s father told her that it was all very well for her to talk like that, but it was quite different for his son, who would pay with his head for any disobedience to the king’s commands.

Who acts: father, reason, king · What happens: tell, be, pay, command · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, reason, king), 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 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridegroom	det
3	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 bridegroom	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 talk	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 very	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 talk	advmod
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 talk	mark
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 talk	mark
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 talk	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 different	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 different	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 different	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 different	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 different	advmod
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 son	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 different	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pay	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 pay	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pay	aux
32	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 different	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pay	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 disobedience	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 disobedience	det
38	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pay	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 commands	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 commands	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 king	case
43	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pay	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the bridegroom's father	princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is not said to happen	past	reason		like that; talk, well property	tree rules
3	is	past	reason		for father's son; different property	tree rules
4	pay	would			with father's head; for any disobedience; to the king's commands	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for disobedience=Theme
5	command		the king			nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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