The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 67

Red answered that he had only one life to lose, and it would be interesting to see how brave he was; besides, the King would have good reason to ennoble him if he overcame them.

Who acts: Red, King · What happens: answer, have, lose, be, see, ennoble · To what, where: besides, one life, good reason, Red, King · 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 (Red, 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	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	ccomp
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 life	nummod
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lose	mark
10	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 life	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 interesting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 interesting	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 interesting	expl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 interesting	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 interesting	cop
16	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 interesting	csubj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 brave	advmod
20	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 see	ccomp
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brave	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brave	cop
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 besides	punct
24	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 answered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	conj
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 reason	amod
31	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 ennoble	mark
33	ennoble	ennoble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 reason	acl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ennoble	obj
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 overcame	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 overcame	nsubj
37	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ennoble	advcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 overcame	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Red	besides		tree rules
2	have	past	Red	one life		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
3	lose	to-infinitive	Red not said here	one life not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	Red not said here		interesting property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	Red		brave property	tree rules
7	have	would	the King	good reason		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
8	ennoble	to-infinitive	the King not said here	Red		tree rules
9	overcome a condition, not said to happen	past	Red	King		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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