The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 38

But the king answered, ‘Such treachery can no man pardon.

Who acts: king, Such treachery · What happens: answer, pardon

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Such treachery), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pardon	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 pardon	punct
7	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treachery	amod
8	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pardon	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pardon	aux
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 pardon	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pardon	compound
12	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the king						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pardon	can	Such treachery						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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