The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a King who was so morose and disagreeable that he was feared by all his subjects, and with good reason, as for the most trifling offences he would have their heads cut off.

Who acts: King, subjects, heads · What happens: be, fear, trifle, have, cut off · To what, where: King, heads

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, subjects, heads), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 was	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 morose	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 morose	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 morose	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 morose	advmod
12	morose	morose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 was	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 disagreeable	cc
14	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morose	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 feared	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 feared	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 feared	aux:pass
18	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 disagreeable	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 subjects	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 subjects	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 subjects	nmod:poss
22	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feared	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reason	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reason	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 reason	case
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reason	amod
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 morose	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 offences	punct
29	as	as	ADP	_	34 offences	case
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 offences	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 offences	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 trifling	advmod
33	trifling	trifle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 offences	amod
34	offences	offence	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reason	appos
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 offences	acl:relcl
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 heads	nmod:poss
39	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	obj
40	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 have	xcomp
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 cut	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a King			morose property	tree rules
3	be		a King not said here				tree rules
4	fear	past · passive	King's subjects	King			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
5	trifle	gerund					vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	have	would	King	offences's heads			tree rules
7	cut off	participle	offences's heads not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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