The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 34

But the king was not content with this reply, and began to press the old man to say what he knew, which for a long time he would not do.

Who acts: king · What happens: not be, begin, press, say, know, not do · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 content	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 content	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 content	advmod
6	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 reply	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 reply	det
9	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 content	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 press	mark
14	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 press	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 press	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 knew	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 do	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 do	advmod
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the king			with this reply; content property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the king not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	press	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the old man			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent man=Result
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know	past	king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	not do	would	king		time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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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