The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 35

My father will then get very angry, and as the king must answer for what his fool does he will sentence him, even although he has paid his debt, either to answer three questions or to lose his life.

Who acts: father, fool · What happens: get, answer, do, sentence, pay, lose · To what, where: father, fool, three questions, life

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 (father, fool), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answer	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 answer	cc
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answer	obl
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 answer	aux
14	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 get	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 answer	obl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fool	nmod:poss
18	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 does	nsubj
19	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sentence	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sentence	aux
22	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 does	obj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sentence	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 paid	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	29 paid	advmod
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 paid	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 paid	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 paid	aux
29	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 answer	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 debt	nmod:poss
31	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 paid	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 answer	punct
33	either	either	CCONJ	_	35 answer	cc:preconj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 answer	mark
35	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 get	parataxis
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 questions	nummod
37	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 answer	obj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 lose	cc
39	to	to	PART	_	40 lose	mark
40	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 answer	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 life	nmod:poss
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lose	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	My father		then	angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	must				as the king	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	father's fool				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sentence	future	fool	father			tree rules
5	pay	present · perfect · passive		fool			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient debt=Asset
6	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive		three questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
7	lose	to-infinitive		father's life			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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