The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 13

The King sent for him, and threatened him angrily, saying that if he had not found the thief by the next day, he should himself be taken up and tried.

Who acts: King · What happens: send, threaten, say, not find, take up, try · To what, where: King, thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 threatened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threatened	cc
8	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threatened	obj
10	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	8 threatened	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 threatened	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 found	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 found	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 found	advmod
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 saying	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thief	det
20	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 day	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 day	amod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taken	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taken	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 taken	nsubj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 taken	aux:pass
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	parataxis
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 taken	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tried	cc
33	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the King			for suspicion	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	threaten	past	the King not said here	King		angrily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	King	the thief	day		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
5	take up	should · passive		King			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
6	try	past					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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