The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 86

He wished he had sufficient excuse to put the boy to death, for the old hermit’s prophecy came back to him as strongly as ever; and yet the young man had done nothing bad enough to deserve such a punishment.

Who acts: story, young man · What happens: wish, have, put, come back, do, deserve · To what, where: sufficient excuse, boy, story, nothing, punishment · 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 (story, young man), 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	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	ccomp
5	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 excuse	amod
6	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 excuse	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 death	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	19 prophecy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hermit	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hermit	amod
17	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prophecy	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 hermit	case
19	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	obl
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 strongly	advmod
25	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 ever	case
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 strongly	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 done	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 done	cc
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	33 man	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 done	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wished	parataxis
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 done	obj
37	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nothing	amod
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	37 bad	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 deserve	mark
40	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 done	advcl
41	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	43 punishment	det:predet
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 punishment	det
43	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 deserve	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	story				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have	past	story	sufficient excuse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient
3	put	to-infinitive	story not said here	sufficient excuse not said here	the boy	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Goal
4	come back	past	story not said here		story	for the old hermit's prophecy; strongly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	do	past · perfect	the young man	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
6	deserve	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	such punishment			tree rules

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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