The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 2

Now the King had been very anxious to have a son, or at least a grandson, to come after him, but he was told by a prophet whom he consulted that his own daughter’s son should kill him.

Who acts: King, prophet, son · What happens: be, have, come, tell, consult, kill · To what, where: son, king, prophet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, prophet, son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 anxious	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 anxious	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxious	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 anxious	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 anxious	advmod
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anxious	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grandson	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 grandson	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 least	case
15	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 grandson	nmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 grandson	det
17	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	conj
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux:pass
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 anxious	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 prophet	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 prophet	det
30	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obl
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 consulted	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 consulted	nsubj
33	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 prophet	acl:relcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 kill	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 daughter	amod
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 son	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 daughter	case
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kill	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 kill	aux
41	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 consulted	ccomp
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 kill	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the King		now	anxious property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	the King not said here	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	come	to-infinitive	the King not said here		after king		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive	a prophet	king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
5	consult	past	king	a prophet			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
6	kill	should	king's own daughter's son	king			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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