The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 59

And turning to the two wicked brothers he said, ‘Suggest something for him to do; no matter how difficult, he must succeed in it or die.’

Who acts: Ferko · What happens: turn, say, suggest, do, succeed, die · To what, where: something, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
2	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 said	csubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 brothers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brothers	nummod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brothers	amod
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turning	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Suggest	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Suggest	punct
12	Suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 Suggest	obj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Suggest	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 difficult	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 difficult	nsubj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 difficult	advmod
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 succeed	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 succeed	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 succeed	aux
26	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 difficult	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 succeed	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 die	cc
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 succeed	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				to the two wicked brothers result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	Ferko				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suggest speech: suggest	infinitive		something			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	Ferko				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	succeed	must	Ferko		matter		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in it=Eventuality
6	die	infinitive	Ferko not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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