The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 22

But he was not to be let off so easy.

What happens: not let off · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	aux:pass
7	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 let	compound:prt
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 easy	advmod
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 let	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let off	past · passive		king				easy property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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