The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 106

Rübezahl would not be the tool of an unjust man, and so he told his master, who thereupon ordered him to be thrown into prison.

Who acts: Rübezahl, master · What happens: not be, tell, order, throw · To what, where: tool, master, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rübezahl, master), 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	Rübezahl	Rübezahl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tool	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tool	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tool	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tool	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tool	det
6	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tool	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tool	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ordered	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ordered	nsubj
20	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	21 ordered	advmod
21	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 master	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ordered	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 thrown	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 thrown	aux:pass
25	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ordered	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 prison	case
27	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thrown	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	would	Rübezahl	the tool		of a unjust man	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Rübezahl	man's master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
3	order	past	man's master		master	thereupon property	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	man's master not said here			into prison result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into prison=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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