The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 95

Here things were in a bad way, for the king had thrown all the eleven brothers into prison, and they were to be executed very shortly because they had not brought him the coverlet.

Who acts: things, bad way · What happens: be, throw, execute, not bring · To what, where: bad way, king, prison, Things

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 (things, bad way), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 way	advmod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 way	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thrown	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 thrown	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrown	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thrown	aux
13	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 way	acl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 brothers	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brothers	det
16	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 brothers	nummod
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thrown	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 prison	case
19	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 executed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 executed	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 executed	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 executed	aux:pass
24	to	to	PART	_	26 executed	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 executed	aux:pass
26	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thrown	conj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 shortly	advmod
28	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	26 executed	advmod
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 brought	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 brought	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 brought	advmod
33	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 executed	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 coverlet	det
36	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	things		a bad way; here		tree rules
2	throw	past · perfect · passive	a bad way not said here	the king	prison		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination brother=Theme
3	execute	past · passive		Things = thing		shortly property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	not bring	past · perfect · passive		Things = thing			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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