The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 155
The King answered that in that case he could not blame him for protecting his own life, and that Red was well worthy of death.
Who acts: King, Ring, Red · What happens: answer, not blame, protect, be · To what, where: opinion, case, own life · 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, Ring, Red), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 blame | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 case | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 case | det |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blame | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blame | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 blame | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 blame | advmod |
| 11 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blame | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 protecting | mark |
| 14 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 blame | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 life | amod |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 protecting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 worthy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 worthy | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 worthy | mark |
| 21 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 worthy | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 worthy | cop |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 worthy | advmod |
| 24 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 worthy | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not blame | could | Ring | opinion | that case | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | protect | gerund | Ring not said here | Ring's own life | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Red | of death; well, worthy property | tree rules |
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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