The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 56

Then he told Dapplegrim that the King had now required that he should get the Princess as good a bridal horse as that which the bridegroom had, or he should lose his life.

Who acts: youth, bridegroom · What happens: tell, require, get, have, lose · To what, where: Dapplegrim, King, Princess, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, bridegroom), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 required	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 required	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 required	aux
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 required	advmod
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 required	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 horse	mark
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 horse	amod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
20	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 horse	amod
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	advcl
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 horse	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bridegroom	det
26	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 that	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lose	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 lose	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lose	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 lose	aux
32	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lose	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	youth		Dapplegrim	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dapplegrim=Recipient clause=Topic
2	require	past · perfect · passive		the King		now	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get	should	youth	the Princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	have	past	the bridegroom				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	lose	should	youth	youth's life			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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