More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 16

So the knight and the eldest daughter were to be married, and the stranger damsel was distracted at the thought of it, for she was deeply in love with him.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: marry, distract, be, think · To what, where: knight, stranger damsel, thought, stain

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (daughter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 married	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 married	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 daughter	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knight	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 married	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 married	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 married	aux:pass
11	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 distracted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 distracted	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 damsel	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 damsel	compound
16	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distracted	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 distracted	aux:pass
18	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 married	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 thought	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thought	det
21	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distracted	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 love	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	30 love	case
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 love	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 love	cop
28	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	30 love	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 love	case
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distracted	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 love	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		the knight and the eldest daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	distract	past · passive		the stranger damsel	the thought of stain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is	past	daughter			for love; with knight; deeply property	tree rules
4	think			stain			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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