More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 116

He was soon told of the giants, and learned that the King of the country had offered a great reward and the hand of his daughter in marriage to the man who should rid his land of this scourge.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, learn, offer, rid · To what, where: resolution, King, land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 giants	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giants	det
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 learned	cc
10	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 offered	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 offered	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 King	nmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 offered	aux
18	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 learned	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 reward	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reward	amod
21	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offered	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hand	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hand	det
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reward	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 daughter	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hand	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 marriage	case
29	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 daughter	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 man	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reward	nmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 rid	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 rid	aux
35	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 man	acl:relcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 land	nmod:poss
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rid	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 scourge	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 scourge	det
40	scourge	scourge	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 land	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		resolution	of the giants; soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	learn	past				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	offer	past · perfect · passive		the King of the country		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal reward=Theme
4	rid	should	the man	resolution's land of this scourge		vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source

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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