The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 67

At this the fox became very sorrowful, and declared that the prince’s refusal to grant his request now compelled him to do a deed which he was very unwilling to do--if the prince would not cut off his head, then he must kill the prince himself.

Who acts: fox, refusal, request, deed, prince · What happens: become, declare, grant, compel, do, be · To what, where: fox, deed, head, prince

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, refusal, request, deed), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 fox	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fox	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sorrowful	advmod
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 declared	cc
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 grant	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 refusal	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 prince	case
15	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grant	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grant	mark
17	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 declared	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 request	nmod:poss
19	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 compelled	nsubj
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 compelled	advmod
21	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grant	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 compelled	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 compelled	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 deed	det
26	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 unwilling	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 unwilling	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 unwilling	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 unwilling	advmod
31	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 deed	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 unwilling	xcomp
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 cut	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 cut	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 prince	det
37	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 cut	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 cut	advmod
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 declared	parataxis
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 cut	compound:prt
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 kill	punct
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 kill	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 kill	nsubj
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 kill	aux
48	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 cut	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 prince	det
50	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kill	obj
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 kill	obl:unmarked
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	this fox			sorrowful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	declare speech: other	past	this fox not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	grant	to-infinitive	the prince's refusal				tree rules
4	compel	past	fox's request	fox	now		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
5	do	to-infinitive	fox's request not said here	a deed			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
6	is	past	a deed			unwilling property	tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	a deed not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not cut off a condition, not said to happen	would	the prince	fox's head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
9	kill	must	prince	the prince	then	fox obl:unmarked	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
10	refuse		the prince				nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent
11	request		fox				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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