The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 25

The Emperor told him he had more than he knew what to do with, and that a new one had been captured that very night for trying to steal his magic bird, but that as he had already more than enough to feed and support, he was going to have this last captive hanged next morning.

Who acts: Emperor, that, last captive · What happens: tell, have, know, do, capture, try · To what, where: stranger, more, new one, magic bird, enough, last captive · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, that, last captive), 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 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 had	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 more	advcl
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 knew	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 what	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	13 do	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 captured	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 captured	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 captured	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 one	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	amod
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 captured	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 captured	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 captured	aux:pass
23	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 night	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 night	advmod
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 captured	obl:unmarked
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 trying	mark
28	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 captured	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 steal	mark
30	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 trying	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bird	nmod:poss
32	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bird	amod
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 steal	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 going	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 going	cc
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 going	nsubj
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 going	advcl
40	already	already	ADV	_	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 enough	advmod
42	than	than	ADP	_	43 enough	case
43	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 had	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 feed	mark
45	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 enough	advcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 support	cc
47	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 feed	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 going	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 going	aux
51	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 told	ccomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 have	mark
53	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 going	xcomp
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 captive	det
55	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 captive	amod
56	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 have	obj
57	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 have	xcomp
58	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 morning	amod
59	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hanged	obl:unmarked
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Emperor		stranger		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	emperor	more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
3	know	past	emperor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	do	to-infinitive	emperor not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	capture	past · perfect · passive		a new one		night	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	try	gerund					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive		emperor's magic bird			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
8	have	past	emperor	enough			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
9	feed	to-infinitive	emperor not said here				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
10	support	infinitive	emperor not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
11	go	past · progressive	that				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	have	to-infinitive	that not said here	this last captive			tree rules
13	hange	participle	this last captive not said here			morning	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 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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