The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 50

He asked the reason of this, and was told that two princes were to be hanged that day for debt; they had spent all their money in feasting and playing, and were now deeply in debt to the host, and as no one could be found to ransom their lives they were about to be hanged according to the law.

Who acts: prince, gallows, one · What happens: ask, tell, hange, spend, play, be · To what, where: reason, two princes, money, feasting, debt, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, gallows, one), 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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 reason	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 hanged	mark
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 princes	nummod
13	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hanged	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hanged	aux:pass
15	to	to	PART	_	17 hanged	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 hanged	aux:pass
17	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hanged	obl:unmarked
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 debt	case
21	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hanged	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 spent	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spent	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spent	aux
25	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 asked	parataxis
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 money	det:predet
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 money	nmod:poss
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spent	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 feasting	case
30	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spent	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 playing	cc
32	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 spent	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 debt	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 debt	cc
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 debt	cop
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 deeply	advmod
37	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	39 debt	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 debt	case
39	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 host	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 host	det
42	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 debt	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 found	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 found	cc
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 found	mark
46	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 one	det
47	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 found	nsubj:pass
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 found	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 found	aux:pass
50	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	parataxis
51	to	to	PART	_	52 ransom	mark
52	ransom	ransom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 found	xcomp
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 lives	nmod:poss
54	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 ransom	obj
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 about	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 about	cop
57	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 lives	acl:relcl
58	to	to	PART	_	60 hanged	mark
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 hanged	aux:pass
60	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 about	xcomp
61	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 law	case
62	to	to	ADP	_	61 according	fixed
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 law	det
64	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hanged	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	prince	the reason of this				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
3	hange not said to happen	past · passive		two princes		day	for debt	tree rules
4	spend	past · perfect	gallows	gallows's money	feasting			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
5	play	gerund	gallows not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past			debt		to the host; deeply property	tree rules
7	find	could · passive		no one				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
8	ransom	to-infinitive	no one not said here	gallows's lives				tree rules
9	is	past	gallows	gallows's lives not said here			about property	tree rules
10	hange	to-infinitive · passive	gallows not said here				accord the law	tree rules
11	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 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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