The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 113

‘Very good,’ said the king, who by this time was almost tired of repeating the same words; ‘but if you fail your head will be the forfeit.’

Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, be, repeat, fail · To what, where: king, same words, head, forfeit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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	_	3 good	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 good	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tired	nsubj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tired	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 tired	advmod
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 king	parataxis
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 repeating	mark
18	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 tired	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 words	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 repeating	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ‘	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 forfeit	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 fail	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 fail	nsubj
27	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 forfeit	advcl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fail	obj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 forfeit	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 forfeit	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 forfeit	det
33	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ‘	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
2	is	past	the king		time	almost, tired property	tree rules
3	repeat	gerund	the king not said here	the same words			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
4	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your head			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
5	is a	future		the forfeit			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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