The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 9

The prince sent back word that he had no thought of war, but he wrote: “Learn and know, King Quimus, that I am here to end the crimes of your insolent daughter who has tyrannously done to death many kings and kings sons, and has hung their heads on your citadel.

Who acts: prince, King, insolent daughter · What happens: send back, have, write, learn, know, be · To what, where: word, that, crimes, many kings, heads, citadel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, King, insolent daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 word	appos
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 thought	det
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 war	case
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrote	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wrote	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrote	nsubj
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Learn	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Learn	punct
19	Learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wrote	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Learn	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 King	punct
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Learn	ccomp
24	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 King	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 end	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 here	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 here	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 here	cop
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 end	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 end	mark
31	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Learn	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 crimes	det
33	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 end	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 daughter	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
36	insolent	insolent	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 daughter	compound
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crimes	nmod
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 done	nsubj
39	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
40	tyrannously	tyrannously	ADV	_	41 done	advmod
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 daughter	acl:relcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 death	case
43	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 done	obl
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 kings	amod
45	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 done	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sons	cc
47	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sons	compound
48	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 kings	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hung	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 hung	cc
51	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 hung	aux
52	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 Learn	conj
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 heads	nmod:poss
54	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hung	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 citadel	case
56	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 citadel	nmod:poss
57	citadel	citadel	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hung	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send back	past	the prince	word			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	have	past	Prince	that			tree rules
3	write	past	Prince				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	learn in a quote	infinitive	Prince not said here				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know in a quote	infinitive	Prince not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	present	King			here property	tree rules
7	end in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the crimes of your insolent daughter			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crime=Eventuality
8	do in a quote	present · perfect	your insolent daughter	many kings and kings sons		to death; tyrannously property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
9	hang in a quote	present · perfect	Prince not said here	sons's heads	your citadel		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on citadel=Destination
10	think			war			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
11	incriminate in a quote			your insolent daughter			nom crime «act 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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