The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 70

The third night, he was sure, would be the worst; he had been drunk when he promised it, and the half of the kingdom, the king could never have been in earnest about that!

Who acts: third night, remainder, half · What happens: be, promise, not be · To what, where: game

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 (third night, remainder, half), 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	3 night	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sure	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sure	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sure	cop
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worst	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 worst	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 worst	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 worst	det
12	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sure	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 drunk	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drunk	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drunk	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 drunk	cop
17	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sure	parataxis
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 promised	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promised	nsubj
20	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drunk	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promised	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 earnest	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 earnest	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 half	det
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 earnest	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 kingdom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 kingdom	det
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 half	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 earnest	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 earnest	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 earnest	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 earnest	advmod
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 earnest	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 earnest	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 earnest	case
37	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sure	ccomp
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 that	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 earnest	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the third night		sure property	tree rules
2	is	would	the third night not said here		bad property	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	remainder		drunk property	tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	past	remainder	game		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not is	could · perfect	the half of the kingdom		about that; earn property	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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