The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 15

The more the cruel King gazed on the wonder before him, the more angry he became, for he could not, in the face of his promise, put the stranger to death.

Who acts: cruel King, angry, Ferko · What happens: gaze, become, put, promise · To what, where: face, stranger

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruel King, angry, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 more	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 gazed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 King	amod
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gazed	nsubj
6	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 wonder	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wonder	det
9	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gazed	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gazed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 angry	det
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 angry	advmod
15	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gazed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 could	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 could	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 could	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 became	xcomp
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 could	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 face	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 face	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 face	det
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 became	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 promise	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 promise	nmod:poss
29	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 face	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gazed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stranger	det
33	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 death	case
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	the cruel King		before Ferko	on the wonder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wonder=Theme
2	become	past	the angry			in the face of Ferko's promise result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in face=Result
3	put	infinitive	the cruel King not said here	the stranger		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stranger=Goal
4	promise		Ferko				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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