The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 9

Yet, cowardly as he was, he had not quite the heart to kill the Princess and her baby outright, but he had them put in a huge brass-bound chest and thrust out to sea, that they might either be drowned or starved, or perhaps come to a country where they would be out of his way.

Who acts: child, baby · What happens: be, have, kill, put, drown, starve · To what, where: heart, Princess, huge bound chest, baby, country, way

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 (child, baby), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	3 cowardly	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cowardly	punct
3	cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 put	advcl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cowardly	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cowardly	parataxis
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 heart	advmod
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 heart	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heart	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 kill	mark
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kill	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 baby	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 baby	nmod:poss
20	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Princess	conj
21	outright	outright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kill	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 put	aux
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	obj
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
28	in	in	ADP	_	34 chest	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 chest	det
30	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 chest	amod
31	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bound	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 brass	punct
33	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 chest	amod
34	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thrust	cc
36	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 chest	conj
37	out	out	ADV	_	27 put	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 sea	case
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 out	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 drowned	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 drowned	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 drowned	nsubj:pass
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 drowned	aux
44	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 drowned	advmod
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 drowned	aux:pass
46	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 put	parataxis
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 starved	cc
48	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 drowned	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 come	cc
51	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	52 come	advmod
52	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 put	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 country	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 country	det
55	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 come	obl
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	63 way	advmod
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 way	nsubj
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 way	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 way	cop
60	out	out	ADP	_	63 way	case
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 way	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 way	nmod:poss
63	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 country	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	child				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	child	the heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	kill	to-infinitive	child not said here	the Princess and Princess's baby		outright property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	put	past · perfect			a huge bound chest and thrust	out property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chest=Destination
5	drown	might · passive		baby		either property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	starve	participle					tree rules
7	come	infinitive			a country	perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
8	is	would	baby		child's way		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 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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