The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 76

But when the third child was taken away, and the Queen was again accused, and could not utter a word in her own defence, the King was obliged to give her over to the law, which decreed that she must be burnt to death.

Who acts: law, mother · What happens: take away, accuse, not utter, oblige, give over, decree · To what, where: third child, Queen, word, own defence, King, mother

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 taken	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 taken	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 accused	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 accused	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Queen	det
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 accused	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 accused	aux:pass
14	again	again	ADV	_	15 accused	advmod
15	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 taken	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 utter	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 utter	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 utter	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 utter	advmod
20	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 accused	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 word	det
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 utter	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 defence	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 defence	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 defence	amod
26	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 utter	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obliged	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 obliged	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	aux:pass
31	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 defence	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 obliged	xcomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	over	over	ADP	_	33 give	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 law	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 law	det
38	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 decreed	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 decreed	nsubj
41	decreed	decree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 law	acl:relcl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 burnt	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 burnt	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 burnt	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 burnt	aux:pass
46	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 decreed	ccomp
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 death	case
48	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 burnt	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past · passive		the third child				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	accuse	past · passive		the Queen			again		vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme
3	not utter speech: other	could		a word		mother's own defence			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	oblige	past · passive		the King					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	give over	to-infinitive			mother			to the law	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to law=Recipient
6	decree	past	the law						tree rules
7	burnt	must · passive		mother				to death	tree rules
8	defend		mother						nom defence «process 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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