The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 79

The troll, therefore, sentenced the king, either to answer three questions that he would put to him, or have his head taken off, as was agreed on in the old bond.

Who acts: troll, head · What happens: sentence, answer, put, have, take off, agree · To what, where: king, three questions, fool, head

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 (troll, head), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sentenced	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 troll	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 sentenced	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
6	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sentenced	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answer	punct
10	either	either	CCONJ	_	12 answer	cc:preconj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 answer	mark
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sentenced	conj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 questions	nummod
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answer	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 put	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 put	aux
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answer	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sentenced	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	xcomp
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 taken	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 agreed	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 agreed	mark
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 agreed	aux:pass
31	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	36 bond	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 bond	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bond	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bond	amod
36	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 agreed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sentenced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sentence	past	the troll	the king		therefore property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the troll not said here	three questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
3	put	would	troll		fool		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	have	infinitive		troll's head			tree rules
5	take off	participle	troll's head not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	agree speech: agree	past · passive				on the old bond	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: on bond=Topic

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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