The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 44

On the fifth day his messenger returned with a letter to say that the king of the land of the north would not sell, but he would give, the king the slave girl and her son.

Who acts: messenger, king · What happens: return, say, not sell, give · To what, where: slave girl, king · 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 (messenger, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 messenger	nmod:poss
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 letter	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 letter	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 returned	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sell	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sell	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 king	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 north	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 north	det
21	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 land	nmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sell	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 sell	advmod
24	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 returned	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 king	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 girl	det
34	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 girl	compound
35	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 son	cc
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 son	nmod:poss
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 girl	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	king's messenger			day	with a letter	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	king's messenger not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not sell	would	the king of the land of the north					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	give	would	king	the slave girl and messenger's son	the king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient girl=Theme

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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