The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 81
And when the young man stood before the king, the king spoke to him and said, ‘By your tricks and the pranks that you have played on other people, you have, in the eye of the law, forfeited your life.
Who acts: young man, king, other people, you, your · What happens: stand, speak, say, play, have, forfeit · To what, where: man, tricks, eye, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (young man, king, other people, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spoke | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 stood | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spoke | advcl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spoke | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spoke | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tricks | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 tricks | punct |
| 20 | By | by | ADP | _ | 22 tricks | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pranks | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pranks | det |
| 25 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tricks | conj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 played | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 played | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 played | aux |
| 29 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 people | case |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 people | amod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 played | obl:agent |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 spoke | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 eye | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 eye | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 eye | det |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 law | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 law | det |
| 42 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 eye | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 forfeited | punct |
| 44 | forfeited | forfeit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 eye | conj |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 life | nmod:poss |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 forfeited | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the young man | before the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the king | man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | present · perfect · passive | other people | your tricks and the pranks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | you | the eye of the law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | forfeit | participle | you not said here | your life | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 7 | trick | your | nom trick «act 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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