The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 110

But though the king was young and eager, he was also prudent, and his father had told him on his deathbed to be very careful in his dealings with the ‘good people,’ as the fairies were called.

Who acts: king, father · What happens: be, tell, call, deal · To what, where: King, deathbed, dealings, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	42 called	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 young	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 young	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 called	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eager	cc
8	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prudent	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prudent	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prudent	cop
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 prudent	advmod
13	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 prudent	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 deathbed	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 deathbed	nmod:poss
23	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	27 careful	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 careful	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 careful	advmod
27	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 told	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 dealings	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dealings	nmod:poss
30	dealings	dealing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 careful	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 people	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 people	det
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 people	punct
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dealings	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 called	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fairies	det
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 called	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 called	aux:pass
42	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king				young property	tree rules
2	be		the king not said here					tree rules
3	is	past	King				prudent property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	King's father		King	King's deathbed		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	to-infinitive	King's father not said here			King's dealings with the good people	careful property	tree rules
6	call	past · passive		the fairies				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	deal		King				with the good people	nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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