The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 27
The King replied, ‘Then both your heads must be staked, and your head and his must be guaranteed for the winner.’
Who acts: King · What happens: reply, stake, guarantee · To what, where: heads, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 staked | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 staked | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 staked | advmod |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 heads | det |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 staked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 staked | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 staked | aux:pass |
| 12 | staked | stake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 replied | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 guaranteed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 guaranteed | cc |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guaranteed | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 guaranteed | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guaranteed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 guaranteed | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 guaranteed | aux:pass |
| 21 | guaranteed | guarantee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 replied | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 winner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 winner | det |
| 24 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guaranteed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stake | must · passive | your heads | then | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | guarantee | must · passive | your head | for the winner | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for winner=Beneficiary |
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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