The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 33

Quite easily, they were told, if they would be stablemen, otherwise the king had no use for them.

Who acts: brothers, king · What happens: tell, be, have · To what, where: brothers, stablemen, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, king), 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	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 easily	advmod
2	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 easily	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stablemen	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 stablemen	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stablemen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stablemen	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 stablemen	cop
12	stablemen	stableman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 use	det
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		brothers = brother	easily property	tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	would	brothers = brother	stablemen		tree rules
3	have	past	the king	no use	for brothers = brother; otherwise property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient

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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