The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 12
The king entreated him to have nothing to do with the riddle, for that no man had come out of it alive.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: entreat, have, do, come out · To what, where: Prince, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:487): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entreated | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreated | xcomp |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 riddle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 riddle | det |
| 12 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 entreated | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 come | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | the king | Prince | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the king not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the king not said here | nothing not said here | with the riddle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | come out | past · perfect | no man | of riddle; alive, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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