The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 72

They declared that the pedlar, in fear of his life, had complained to the king; and that they had been sent to bring the lawless person who had said these things before the king himself.

Who acts: men, pedlar, lawless person · What happens: declare, complain, send, bring, say, fear · To what, where: king, men, lawless person, things, life · 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 (men, pedlar, lawless person), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 complained	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pedlar	det
5	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 complained	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fear	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pedlar	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fear	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pedlar	punct
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 complained	aux
14	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 declared	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 complained	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sent	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sent	aux:pass
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 declared	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bring	mark
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sent	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 person	det
28	lawless	lawless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 person	amod
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 said	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	aux
32	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 person	acl:relcl
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 things	det
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 said	obj
35	before	before	ADP	_	37 king	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 king	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	men = man				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	complain speech: other	past · perfect	the pedlar		the king		vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
3	send	past · perfect · passive		men = man			tree rules
4	bring	to-infinitive	men = man not said here		the lawless person		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument person=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the lawless person	this things		before the king pedlar	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
6	fear			pedlar's life			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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