The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 186
He was fond of his daughter, and though she had behaved badly, he did not wish to cut HER head off, and he did not want people to know the truth because it would make him look foolish.
Who acts: king, daughter, people, truth · What happens: be, behave, not wish, cut off, not want, know · To what, where: head, people, truth, king
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, daughter, people, truth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fond | cop |
| 3 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fond | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 behaved | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 behaved | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 behaved | aux |
| 12 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 wish | advcl |
| 13 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 behaved | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 behaved | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wish | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wish | advmod |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fond | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | xcomp |
| 21 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADV | _ | 20 cut | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 want | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 want | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 want | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 want | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 want | advmod |
| 29 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fond | conj |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 want | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 know | mark |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 want | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 truth | det |
| 34 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 know | obj |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | nsubj |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 make | aux |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 want | advcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 make | obj |
| 40 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 make | xcomp |
| 41 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 look | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | of king's daughter; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behave | past · perfect | daughter | badly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | daughter's head | off property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | not want | past · do-support | king | people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | make | would | truth | king | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | king not said here | foolish property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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