The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 73

“If people will not do as you tell them they ought to suffer for it,” answered his foster-brother; “but even if it were unjust, you had better be accused of that by your subjects than that they should find out that they may insult and thwart you as often as they please.”

Who acts: people, foster brother, pleasure, you, subjects · What happens: not do, tell, suffer, answer, be, have · To what, where: people, better, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, foster brother, pleasure, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answered	ccomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 tell	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 suffer	nsubj
12	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 suffer	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 suffer	mark
14	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 suffer	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brother	nmod:poss
21	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brother	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 foster	punct
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 unjust	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 unjust	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 unjust	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	31 unjust	advmod
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 unjust	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 unjust	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 unjust	cop
31	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 answered	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 unjust	conj
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 accused	nsubj:pass
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 accused	aux:pass
37	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 had	xcomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 that	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 accused	obl
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 subjects	case
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 subjects	nmod:poss
42	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 accused	obl
43	than	than	SCONJ	_	47 find	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 find	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 find	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 find	aux
47	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 accused	advcl
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 find	compound:prt
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 insult	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 insult	nsubj
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 insult	aux
52	insult	insult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 find	advcl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 thwart	cc
54	thwart	thwart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 insult	xcomp
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 thwart	obj
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 often	advmod
57	often	often	ADV	_	54 thwart	advmod
58	as	as	ADP	_	60 please	case
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 please	nsubj
60	please	please	INTJ	_	54 thwart	discourse
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 unjust	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 unjust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	people				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	people		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	suffer not said to happen, in a quote	ought	people			for pleasure	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past	Darling's foster brother				tree rules
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	pleasure			unjust property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	past	you				tree rules
7	accuse in a quote	infinitive · passive	your subjects	better		of that	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme of that=Attribute
8	find out in a quote	should	people				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
9	insult in a quote	may	people				tree rules
10	thwart in a quote	infinitive	people not said here	you		often property	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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