The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 89

The queen had then to tell him this much of the story, that it had been foretold that it would cause great sorrow and misfortune if either he or she got a sight of the child until it had completed its fourteenth year.

Who acts: queen, course, child · What happens: have, tell, foretell, cause, get, complete · To what, where: much, child, course, great sorrow, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, course, child), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 much	det
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 story	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 foretold	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 foretold	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 foretold	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 foretold	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 foretold	aux:pass
18	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cause	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cause	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cause	aux
22	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 foretold	advcl
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sorrow	amod
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 misfortune	cc
26	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sorrow	conj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 got	mark
28	either	either	CCONJ	_	32 got	cc:preconj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 got	nsubj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 got	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cause	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sight	det
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 child	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 child	det
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sight	nmod
38	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 completed	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 completed	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 completed	aux
41	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 got	advcl
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 year	nmod:poss
43	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 year	amod
44	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 completed	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the queen			then	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	this much of the story	child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Topic
3	foretell	past · perfect · passive		course			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	cause	would	course	great sorrow and misfortune			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sorrow=Patient
5	get a condition, not said to happen	past	child	a sight of the child			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
6	complete	past · perfect · passive		course		year	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	sight			the child			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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