The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 12

The King did not try to find out where the bracelets had come from, not because he did not want to know, but because the only way would have been to ask Turritella, and he disliked her so much that he never spoke to her if he could possibly avoid it.

Who acts: King, bracelets · What happens: not try, find out, come, not want, know, be · To what, where: Turritella, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, bracelets), 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	5 try	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 try	advmod
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 come	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bracelets	det
11	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 find	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	13 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 want	advmod
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 want	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 want	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 want	advmod
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ask	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 ask	cc
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 ask	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
28	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ask	obl:unmarked
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 ask	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 ask	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 ask	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 ask	mark
34	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	conj
35	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ask	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 disliked	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 disliked	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 disliked	nsubj
39	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	parataxis
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 disliked	obj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 much	advmod
42	much	much	ADV	_	46 spoke	advmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 spoke	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 spoke	nsubj
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 spoke	advmod
46	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 disliked	advcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 spoke	obl
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 avoid	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 avoid	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 avoid	aux
52	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	53 avoid	advmod
53	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 spoke	advcl
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 avoid	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not try	past · do-support	the King				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	come	past · perfect	the bracelets				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not want	past · do-support	King				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	would · perfect	the King not said here			the only way obl:unmarked; ask property	tree rules
7	dislike	past	King	Turritella			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
8	not speak speech: other	past	King		Turritella		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
9	avoid a condition, not said to happen	could	King	way		possibly property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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