The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 34

But the king would not hear a word; he drove them away, telling them that if they did not get it very soon it would cost them their heads.

Who acts: king, brothers, word · What happens: not hear, drive away, tell, not get, cost · To what, where: word, brothers, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, brothers, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:2879): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 hear	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drove	nsubj
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drove	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 drove	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 telling	punct
15	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 drove	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 telling	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 cost	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 get	advmod
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cost	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 get	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cost	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cost	aux
28	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 telling	ccomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cost	iobj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heads	nmod:poss
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cost	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	would	the king	a word			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	drive away	past	king	brothers = brother		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	king not said here		brothers = brother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not get a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	brothers = brother	word		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	cost	would	word	brothers's heads	brothers = brother		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary head=Value

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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