The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 65

But after he had got a good breakfast, and tasted well of the king’s wines, he undertook to go on guard again the third night, but he would not do it for less than the half of the kingdom, he said, for it was a dangerous post, and the king had to agree, and promise him this.

Who acts: smith, breakfast, king · What happens: get, taste, undertake, go, not do, say · To what, where: good breakfast, guard, breakfast, this, smith · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, breakfast, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 tasted	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 got	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 tasted	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 breakfast	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breakfast	amod
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tasted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tasted	cc
11	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 tasted	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 wines	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wines	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tasted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 undertook	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 undertook	nsubj
20	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tasted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 undertook	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 guard	case
24	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
27	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 night	amod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 do	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 do	advmod
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tasted	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 less	case
37	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 do	obl
38	than	than	ADP	_	40 half	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 half	det
40	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 less	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 kingdom	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 kingdom	det
43	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 half	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 said	nsubj
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 do	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 post	punct
48	for	for	ADP	_	53 post	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 post	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 post	cop
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 post	det
52	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 post	amod
53	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 had	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 had	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 king	det
57	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tasted	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 agree	mark
60	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 had	xcomp
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 promise	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 promise	cc
63	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 agree	conj
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 promise	obj
65	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 promise	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	smith	a good breakfast					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breakfast=Stimulus
2	taste	past						of the king's wines; well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	undertake	past	smith						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	go	to-infinitive	smith not said here			guard	again; night		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on guard=Location
5	not do	would	smith	breakfast				for less	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past	smith						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	breakfast					for a dangerous post	tree rules
8	have	past	the king						tree rules
9	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive	the king not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	promise speech: promise	infinitive	the king not said here	this	smith				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal this=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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