The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 69

But the father was no longer there, for the loss of his son had killed him; and on his deathbed he confessed to his people how he had contrived that the old wizard should carry away a peasant’s child instead of the prince, wherefore this punishment had fallen upon him.

Who acts: father, loss, old wizard, punishment · What happens: be, kill, confess, contrive, carry away, fall · To what, where: father, deathbed, people

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, loss, old wizard, punishment), 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 there	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loss	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 loss	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loss	det
11	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 son	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killed	obl
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 killed	aux
16	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 loss	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 killed	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 deathbed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 deathbed	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 deathbed	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 deathbed	nmod:poss
22	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	appos
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 confessed	nsubj
24	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 deathbed	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 people	nmod:poss
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 confessed	obl
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 contrived	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 contrived	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 contrived	aux
31	contrived	contrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 confessed	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 carry	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wizard	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wizard	amod
35	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carry	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 carry	aux
37	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 contrived	advcl
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 carry	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 peasant	det
40	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 child	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 peasant	case
42	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 away	nsubj
43	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	46 prince	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	43 instead	fixed
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 prince	det
46	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carry	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 fallen	punct
48	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	52 fallen	advmod
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 punishment	det
50	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fallen	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 fallen	aux
52	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 prince	acl:relcl
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 fallen	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father			long, there property	tree rules
2	kill	past · perfect	the loss not said here	father		of father's son	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme of son=Initial_Location
3	confess	past	father	father's deathbed not said here	father's people		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent deathbed=Topic to people=Recipient
4	contrive	past · perfect	father				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	carry away	should	the old wizard			instead the prince; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past · perfect	this punishment			upon father; wherefore property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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