More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 92

But, one day, people told each other that the King was travelling through the land, and in the town near by was to give a great ball, to all the lords and ladies of the country, when the Prince, his only son, was to choose a wife.

Who acts: people, King, Prince · What happens: tell, travel, give, be · To what, where: each, land, great ball, lords, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, King, Prince), 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 told	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 told	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 travelling	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 travelling	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 travelling	aux
14	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travelling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obl
23	near	near	ADP	_	22 town	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	23 near	fixed
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
26	to	to	PART	_	27 give	mark
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ball	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ball	amod
30	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lords	punct
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 lords	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 lords	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lords	det
35	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 give	iobj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ladies	cc
37	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lords	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 country	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 country	det
40	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ladies	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 choose	punct
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 choose	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Prince	det
44	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 choose	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 son	punct
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 son	nmod:poss
47	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 son	amod
48	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Prince	appos
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Prince	punct
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 choose	cop
51	to	to	PART	_	52 choose	mark
52	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 give	advcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 wife	det
54	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 choose	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	people	each			day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
2	travel	past · progressive	the King			the land			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory
3	give	past	people not said here	a great ball	all lords and ladies of the country	the town			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient ball=Theme
4	is	past	the Prince					choose property	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: «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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