The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 150
The King became very angry, and said he would soon find out the truth about it, and if Ring had cut off his hand without good cause he should be hanged; but if it was otherwise, then Red should die.
Who acts: King, son, Ring, good cause, hand, Red · What happens: become, say, find out, cut off, hange, be · To what, where: truth, hand, Ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, son, Ring, good cause), 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 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 find | advmod |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 find | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 truth | det |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 truth | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cut | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cut | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 cut | mark |
| 21 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cut | aux |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 cut | compound:prt |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obj |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 cause | case |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cause | amod |
| 29 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 hanged | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 hanged | aux:pass |
| 33 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 cause | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 die | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 die | cc |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 otherwise | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 otherwise | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 otherwise | cop |
| 39 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 44 die | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 otherwise | punct |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 die | advmod |
| 42 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 die | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 die | aux |
| 44 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 became | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the King | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | find out | would | son | the truth | about truth; soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | |||
| 4 | cut off a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Ring | son's hand | without good cause | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | hange | should · passive | good cause not said here | Ring | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | hand | otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die | should | Red | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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