The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 5

But lo! let the king lay in the scales as many gold pieces as he would, the silk was always heavier still.

Who acts: you, king, silk · What happens: let, lie, be · To what, where: scales

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 (you, king, silk), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 let	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 lo	punct
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 scales	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scales	det
10	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pieces	amod
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pieces	compound
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 would	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 would	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heavier	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 silk	det
20	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heavier	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heavier	cop
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 heavier	advmod
23	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 lay	conj
24	still	still	ADV	_	23 heavier	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	the king	the scales		as many gold pieces	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in scale=Location
3	is	past	the silk		still	always, heavy 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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