The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 86

At first the King paid no heed to her words, but the old woman harped so long on the subject, and accused the young Queen of so many bad things, that at last he let himself be talked over, and condemned his beautiful wife to death.

Who acts: King, old woman, word, Queen · What happens: pay, harp, accuse, let, talk over, condemn · To what, where: heed, subject, young Queen, word, beautiful wife

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, old woman, word, Queen), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 paid	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 heed	det
7	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 words	nmod:poss
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 harped	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 harped	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harped	nsubj
16	harped	harp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 harped	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 subject	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 subject	det
21	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accused	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 accused	cc
24	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Queen	amod
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 accused	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 things	case
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Queen	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 last	punct
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 last	det
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 last	case
36	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Queen	appos
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	nsubj
38	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 last	acl:relcl
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 let	obj
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 talked	aux:pass
41	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 let	xcomp
42	over	over	ADV	_	41 talked	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 condemned	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 condemned	cc
45	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 wife	nmod:poss
47	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wife	amod
48	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 condemned	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 death	case
50	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 condemned	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the King	no heed		to Queen's words	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
2	harp	past	the old woman		the subject	long property	tree rules
3	accuse	past	the King not said here	the young Queen of many bad things			vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
4	let	past	word	word			tree rules
5	talk over	infinitive · passive	word not said here			over property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»
6	condemn	past	the King not said here	word's beautiful wife		to death	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
7	word		Queen				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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