The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 109

He understood then that the host meant to ask him by this what kind of death he preferred to die, unless he was willing to ransom his life with his money.

Who acts: prince, host · What happens: understand, mean, ask, prefer, die, be · To what, where: prince, kind, life

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, host), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 understood	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 meant	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meant	nsubj
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 meant	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 kind	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 kind	det
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 kind	det
14	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 preferred	nsubj
18	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 die	mark
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 preferred	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 willing	punct
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	25 willing	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 willing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 willing	cop
25	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meant	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 ransom	mark
27	ransom	ransom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 willing	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ransom	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 money	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 money	nmod:poss
32	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ransom	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	prince			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	past	the host					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	the host not said here		prince		by this kind of death	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	prefer	past	prince	this kind of death not said here				tree rules
5	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	prince				willing property	tree rules
7	ransom	to-infinitive	prince not said here	prince's life			with prince's money	tree rules

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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