The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 79

‘If you seek to trick me this time, the highest stone will soon be the lowest,’ said he, and the king and queen trembled, but they could not bear to give up their boy.

Who acts: you, highest stone, lowest, father, stones · What happens: seek, trick, be, say, tremble, not bear · To what, where: me, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, highest stone, lowest, father), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 lowest	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 seek	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seek	nsubj
4	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lowest	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 trick	mark
6	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seek	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 trick	obj
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seek	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
12	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lowest	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lowest	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 lowest	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 lowest	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lowest	det
18	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lowest	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 lowest	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trembled	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trembled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 trembled	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trembled	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 queen	cc
28	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 king	conj
29	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bear	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 bear	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bear	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bear	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 bear	advmod
35	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 give	mark
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 bear	xcomp
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 give	compound:prt
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 boy	nmod:poss
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seek a condition, not said to happen	present	you				tree rules
2	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	time		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	is	future	the highest stone			low, soon property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the lowest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tremble	participle	father				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not bear	could	stones = stone				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	give up	to-infinitive	stones = stone not said here	stones's boy			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Source

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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