The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 4

Knowing that the King would certainly have their heads cut off for allowing the Prince to escape, they then agreed to say that he was ill, and after making the smallest among them look as much like Prince Curlicue as possible, they put him into his bed and sent to inform the King.

Who acts: Knowing, Prince, guards · What happens: know, cut off, allow, escape, agree, say · To what, where: Prince, smallest, much, bed, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knowing, Prince, guards), 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	Knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cut	csubj:pass
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cut	aux
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 allowing	mark
13	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cut	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 allowing	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 escape	mark
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowing	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 agreed	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 agreed	nsubj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 agreed	advmod
21	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 say	mark
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 agreed	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 ill	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ill	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ill	cop
27	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 say	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 look	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 look	cc
30	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 making	mark
31	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 look	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 smallest	det
33	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 making	obj
34	among	among	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 making	obl
36	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 agreed	conj
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 look	obj
39	like	like	ADP	_	41 Curlicue	case
40	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Curlicue	compound
41	Curlicue	curlicue	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 much	nmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 possible	mark
43	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 look	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 put	punct
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 put	nsubj
46	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	parataxis
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 put	obj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 bed	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 bed	nmod:poss
50	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sent	cc
52	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 put	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 inform	mark
54	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 sent	advcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 King	det
56	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 inform	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cut off	infinitive · perfect	Knowing						vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	allow	gerund	Knowing not said here	the Prince					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer prince=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	agree speech: agree	past	guards = guard				then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	guards = guard not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	Prince					ill property	tree rules
8	make	gerund		the smallest				among guards = guard	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset small=Product
9	look	present	guards = guard not said here	much				like Prince Curlicue	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute
10	put	past	guards = guard		Prince	Prince's bed			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
11	send	participle	guards = guard not said here						vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	guards = guard not said here		the King				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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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