The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 67

He would cause some trouble, for which the king would be severely spoken to, but he would answer for it that no harm would befall him.

Who acts: lie, harm · What happens: cause, speak, answer, befall · To what, where: trouble, king, lie · 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 (lie, harm), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cause	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 trouble	det
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoken	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 spoken	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spoken	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 spoken	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 spoken	aux:pass
13	severely	severely	ADV	_	14 spoken	advmod
14	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cause	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 spoken	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 answer	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answer	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	aux
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answer	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 befall	mark
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 harm	det
25	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 befall	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 befall	aux
27	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answer	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 befall	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	would	lie	some trouble		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient
2	speak speech: other	would · passive		the king	severely property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	would	lie		for trouble	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	befall	would	no harm	lie		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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