The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 51

The prince knew that it was his two brothers who had thus forfeited their lives and it cut him to the heart to think that two princes should suffer such a shameful death; and, as he had sufficient money with him, he paid their debts, and so ransomed their lives.

Who acts: prince, life, two princes · What happens: know, be, forfeit, cut, think, suffer · To what, where: two brothers, prince, shameful death, sufficient money, debts, lives · 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, life, two princes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 brothers	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brothers	cop
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 brothers	nummod
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	ccomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 forfeited	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forfeited	aux
12	thus	thus	ADV	_	13 forfeited	advmod
13	forfeited	forfeit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 brothers	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lives	nmod:poss
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forfeited	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cut	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cut	nsubj
18	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cut	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 heart	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heart	det
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 think	mark
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cut	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 suffer	mark
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 princes	nummod
27	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 suffer	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 suffer	aux
29	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 think	ccomp
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 death	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 death	det
32	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 death	amod
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suffer	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 paid	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 paid	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 and	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 paid	advcl
40	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 money	amod
41	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 money	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 paid	nsubj
46	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 debts	nmod:poss
48	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 paid	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 ransomed	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 ransomed	cc
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 ransomed	advmod
52	ransomed	ransom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 paid	parataxis
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 ransomed	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the prince			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	life	prince's two brothers		tree rules
3	forfeit	past · perfect · passive		prince's two brothers	thus property	tree rules
4	cut	past	life	prince	to the heart result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Instrument he=Patient to heart=Result
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	life not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	suffer	should	two princes	such shameful death		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
7	have	past	prince	sufficient money	with heart	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
8	pay	past	prince	gallows's debts		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
9	ransom	participle		gallows's lives		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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