The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 24

But this did not last long, for the other people in the King’s Court became envious of the lad, and there was no bad thing that they would not have done to him if they had but dared.

Who acts: this, other people, people · What happens: not last, become, be, not do, have, dare · To what, where: bad thing, King

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (this, other people, people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 last	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 last	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 last	advmod
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 last	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 became	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 became	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 Court	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Court	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	conj
18	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 lad	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lad	det
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 envious	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thing	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 thing	det
27	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 became	xcomp
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 done	obj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 done	advmod
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 thing	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	obl
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 done	advcl
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 dared	cc
41	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 had	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not last	past · do-support	this			long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the other people in the King's Court			envious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	the other people in the King's Court not said here	no bad thing			tree rules
4	not do	would · perfect	people	no bad thing	King		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	people				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	dare	past	people not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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