The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 26

And two of them could not be put to death, but the youngest, whose face was very beautiful, could be killed, and it was _her_ head that the boy had promised to bring.

Who acts: face, boy · What happens: not put, be, kill, promise, bring · To what, where: two, youngest

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 (face, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 put	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 two	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 put	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 put	aux:pass
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 killed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youngest	det
14	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 killed	nsubj:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beautiful	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beautiful	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beautiful	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 beautiful	advmod
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 youngest	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 youngest	punct
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 killed	aux:pass
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 put	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 head	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 head	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 _	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 _	cop
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 head	punct
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 head	punct
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 promised	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boy	det
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 promised	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 promised	aux
37	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 head	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 bring	mark
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 promised	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not put	could · passive		two of women	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	is	past	face		beautiful property	tree rules
3	kill	could · passive		the youngest		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	the boy			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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