The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 119

All these months the king and queen had been telling each other how good and merciful they had been not to take her brother’s advice and to put her to death.

Who acts: king, hearts · What happens: tell, have, not be, put · To what, where: each, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, hearts), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 months	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 months	det
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 telling	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 telling	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 queen	cc
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 telling	aux
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 telling	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 telling	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 merciful	cc
16	merciful	merciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 good	conj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	ccomp
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 take	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 take	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 advice	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 brother	case
26	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 put	mark
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · progressive	the king and queen	each		month		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	hearts = heart					tree rules
3	not is	participle	hearts = heart not said here				take property	tree rules
4	put	to-infinitive	hearts = heart not said here		queen		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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