The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 61

He only said that sons who could so forget their old father and disgrace their royal birth as those had done would not hesitate to betray their brother either.

Who acts: fox, sons · What happens: say, forget, disgrace, do, not hesitate, betray · To what, where: old father, royal birth, those, brother · 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 (fox, sons), 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	3 said	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 forget	mark
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forget	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 forget	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 forget	aux
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 forget	advmod
9	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 father	amod
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forget	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 disgrace	cc
14	disgrace	disgrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 birth	nmod:poss
16	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birth	amod
17	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disgrace	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 done	mark
19	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 done	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hesitate	advcl
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hesitate	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hesitate	advmod
24	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 disgrace	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 betray	mark
26	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hesitate	xcomp
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 betray	obj
29	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 betray	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	could	sons	pieces's old father		tree rules
3	disgrace	present	fox not said here	pieces's royal birth		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus birth=Experiencer
4	do	past · perfect · passive		those		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	not hesitate	would				tree rules
6	betray	to-infinitive		pieces's brother	either property	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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