The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 60
They did not think long, but replied, ‘Let him build your Majesty in one day a more beautiful palace than this, and if he fails in the attempt let him be hung.’
Who acts: brothers, Ferko · What happens: not think, reply, let, build, fail, hang · To what, where: Ferko, Majesty, attempt · 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 (brothers, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 11 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Let | obj |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 palace | amod |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | appos |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 this | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 palace | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fails | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fails | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 fails | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fails | nsubj |
| 29 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Let | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 attempt | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 attempt | det |
| 32 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 let | obl |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fails | ccomp |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 let | obj |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 hung | aux:pass |
| 36 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 let | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | brothers = brother | long property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Ferko | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | infinitive | Ferko not said here | your Majesty | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset majesty=Product | |||
| 5 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | Ferko | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | Ferko not said here | Ferko | the attempt | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hang | infinitive · passive | Ferko not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V» |
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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