The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 49

‘I tell you,’ he said, ‘and it is the solemn truth, that I would rather you had told me that the prince was dead, though he is my only son, than know that he would suffer such an injury without attempting to avenge it.

Who acts: I, company, number, prince · What happens: tell, say, be, know, suffer, attempt · To what, where: you, solemn truth, I, me, only son, injury · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, company, number, prince), 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	_	3 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 truth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 truth	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 truth	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 truth	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
15	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 truth	amod
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 told	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 truth	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 dead	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prince	det
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dead	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 told	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 son	punct
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 son	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 son	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 son	cop
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 son	nmod:poss
36	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 son	amod
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 truth	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	40 know	mark
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 truth	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 suffer	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 suffer	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 suffer	aux
44	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 know	ccomp
45	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	47 injury	det:predet
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 injury	det
47	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 suffer	obj
48	without	without	SCONJ	_	49 attempting	mark
49	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 suffer	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 avenge	mark
51	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 attempting	xcomp
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 avenge	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	company				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present	number	the solemn truth and my only son			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		I	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
5	is	past	the prince			dead property	tree rules
6	is a	present	company	my only son			tree rules
7	know	infinitive	number not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	suffer	would	company	such injury			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer injury=Stimulus
9	attempt	gerund	company not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	avenge not said to happen	to-infinitive	company not said here	injury			tree rules

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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