The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 11

‘That is not true,’ said the king, ‘and if you do not tell me the truth I will have your head cut off this instant.’

Who acts: That, you, truth, head · What happens: not be, say, not tell, have, cut off · To what, where: king, me, head, instant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, you, truth, head), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 true	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 tell	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 tell	advmod
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 truth	det
21	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	ccomp
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 have	xcomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 instant	det
30	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	That			true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the king and ‘			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	future	the truth	your head			tree rules
5	cut off	participle	your head not said here	this instant			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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