The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 130

Now, though the King would much rather have seen his future son-in-law tarred, feathered, and burnt at the stake, he remembered his royal oath, and had to make the best of a bad business.

Who acts: King · What happens: see, tar, burnt, remember, have, make · To what, where: future son, stake, royal oath, best

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 tarred	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 seen	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 rather	advmod
8	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 tarred	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
12	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 law	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 law	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 in	punct
17	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	conj
18	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feathered	punct
20	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tarred	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 burnt	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 burnt	cc
23	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tarred	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 stake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stake	det
26	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burnt	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 remembered	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remembered	nsubj
29	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 burnt	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 oath	nmod:poss
31	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 oath	amod
32	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remembered	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 remembered	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 make	mark
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 best	det
39	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 make	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 business	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 business	det
42	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 business	amod
43	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 best	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tarred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	would · perfect	the King	King's future son			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
2	tar	participle				now	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	burnt	participle			the stake		tree rules
4	remember	past	King	King's royal oath			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
5	have	past	King not said here				tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	King not said here	the best			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product

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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