The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 87

Everyone would call him a tyrant if he were to give such an order—in fact, he dared not try it!

Who acts: Everyone, story · What happens: call, give, try · To what, where: story, order, fact · 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 (Everyone, story), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 call	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 call	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tyrant	det
6	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	xcomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 give	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	11 give	mark
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 call	advcl
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 order	det:predet
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 order	det
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 fact	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 fact	case
17	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 try	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fact	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 try	nsubj
20	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 try	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dared	advmod
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 call	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 try	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call speech: assert	would	Everyone		story		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	give a condition, not said to happen	past	story	such order			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	try	past	story	order		fact	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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