The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 80

The king inquired if he had any excuse to plead for the high treason he had committed by striking the heir to the throne, and, if so, to be quick in setting it forth.

Who acts: prisoner · What happens: inquire, have, plead, commit, strike, be · To what, where: king, excuse, high treason, heir

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 (prisoner), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 king	acl
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 excuse	det
8	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 plead	mark
10	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 excuse	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 treason	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 treason	det
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 treason	amod
14	treason	treason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plead	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 committed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 committed	aux
17	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 treason	acl:relcl
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 striking	mark
19	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 committed	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heir	det
21	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 striking	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 throne	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 throne	det
24	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heir	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 quick	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 quick	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 so	mark
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 quick	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 quick	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	33 quick	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 quick	cop
33	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 king	amod
34	in	in	SCONJ	_	35 setting	mark
35	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 quick	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 setting	obj
37	forth	forth	ADV	_	35 setting	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	participle		the king not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	prisoner	any excuse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient
3	plead speech: request	to-infinitive	prisoner not said here	any excuse not said here	for the high treason	tree rules
4	commit	past · perfect	prisoner	the high treason not said here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treason=Theme
5	strike	gerund	prisoner not said here	the heir	to the throne result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent heir=Patient to throne=Result
6	is	to-infinitive			quick property	tree rules
7	set	gerund		heir	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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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