The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 26

She told him then that all the kings in the country round about were in debt to her father the troll, and the king of a certain kingdom, the name of which she told him, was the first who had to pay, and if he could not do so at the time appointed he would lose his head.

Who acts: girl, king, troll · What happens: tell, be, have, pay, not do, appoint · To what, where: troll, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, king, troll), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 told	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 kings	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kings	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kings	det
8	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 then	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kings	nmod
12	round	round	ADP	_	16 debt	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	16 debt	advmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 debt	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 debt	case
16	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kings	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 debt	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 troll	det
21	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 first	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 first	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 first	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 kingdom	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 kingdom	det
28	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kingdom	amod
29	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 king	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 name	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kingdom	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 told	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	nsubj
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 name	acl:relcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	iobj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 king	punct
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 first	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 first	det
41	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 kings	parataxis
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 first	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 pay	mark
45	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 had	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 do	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 do	cc
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 do	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 do	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 do	advmod
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pay	conj
53	so	so	ADV	_	57 appointed	advmod
54	at	at	ADP	_	56 time	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 time	det
56	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 appointed	obl
57	appointed	appoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 do	advcl
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 lose	nsubj
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 lose	aux
60	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 appointed	xcomp
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 head	nmod:poss
62	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 lose	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	girl		troll	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past					round debt; to girl's father; about property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	girl		troll		of the name	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past	the king of a certain kingdom				first property	tree rules
5	have	past						tree rules
6	pay	to-infinitive						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not do a condition, not said to happen	could	troll					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	appoint	past	troll not said here			time		tree rules
9	lose	would	troll	troll's head				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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