The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 76

But as he was very angry at what he had been told, he declared that he was going to make an example of this young man, and intended to teach him that even poor travelling pedlars could get justice in HIS country, and be protected from such lawlessness.

Who acts: pedlar, poor travelling pedlars · What happens: be, tell, declare, go, make, intend · To what, where: pedlar, example, justice, HIS country, young 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 (pedlar, poor travelling pedlars), 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	_	15 declared	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 angry	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 declared	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 angry	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 declared	nsubj
15	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 going	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 declared	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 going	xcomp
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 example	det
23	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 man	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 example	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intended	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 intended	cc
30	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 declared	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 teach	mark
32	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 intended	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 teach	obj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 get	mark
35	even	even	ADV	_	36 poor	advmod
36	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pedlars	amod
37	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 pedlars	amod
38	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 get	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 get	aux
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 teach	advcl
41	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 get	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 country	case
43	HIS	HIS	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 country	compound
44	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 get	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 protected	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 protected	cc
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 protected	aux:pass
48	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 declared	conj
49	from	from	ADP	_	51 lawlessness	case
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lawlessness	amod
51	lawlessness	lawlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 protected	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	pedlar				angry property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		pedlar				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	declare speech: other	past	pedlar					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	go	past · progressive	pedlar					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make	to-infinitive	pedlar not said here	a example of this young man				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset example=Product
6	intend	participle	pedlar not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	pedlar not said here		pedlar			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	travel	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get	could	poor travelling pedlars	justice		HIS country		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer justice=Stimulus
10	protect	infinitive · passive	pedlar not said here				from such lawlessness	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: from lawlessness=Theme
11	exemplify			this young man				nom example «cognition 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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