The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 69

They went and told the King about him, and said what a weighty and useful man he’d be in time of war, and that it would be well to secure him at any price.

Who acts: people, weighty man, man, war · What happens: go, tell, say, have, be, secure · To what, where: King, weighty man, man, price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, weighty man, man, war), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 man	det
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
14	weighty	weighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 useful	cc
16	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weighty	conj
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ’d	nsubj
19	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	acl:relcl
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ’d	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 time	case
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 be	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 war	case
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 secure	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 secure	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 well	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 well	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 well	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 well	cop
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 secure	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 secure	mark
33	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 secure	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 price	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 price	det
37	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 secure	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	people						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	people not said here		the King			about hero	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about he=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	what weighty man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	man	what weighty man not said here					tree rules
5	be	infinitive	what weighty man not said here				time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	would	war					well property	tree rules
7	secure	to-infinitive	people not said here	man		any price			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at price=Asset

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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