The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 57
When the king inquired after the youngest brother they answered that he had led such a life in the inn that he had been hanged for debt.
Who acts: king, brothers, inn · What happens: inquire, answer, lead, hange · To what, where: youngest brother, life, inn, king · 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 (king, brothers, inn), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 inquired | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inquired | nsubj |
| 4 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inquired | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 led | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 led | aux |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 life | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 life | det |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 inn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 inn | det |
| 20 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 hanged | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hanged | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 hanged | aux:pass |
| 25 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 inn | acl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 debt | case |
| 27 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hanged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | participle | the king | after the youngest brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | brothers = brother | the youngest brother not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · perfect | king | such life | the inn | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in inn=Destination | |||
| 4 | hange | past · perfect · passive | the inn not said here | king | for debt | 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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