More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 117
Then the young prince put out a proclamation that whoever could put on the glass slipper should be his bride.
Who acts: proclamation · What happens: put out, put, be · To what, where: young prince, glass slipper, bride
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proclamation), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 proclamation | det |
| 8 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bride | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 put | nsubj |
| 10 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 put | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proclamation | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 slipper | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 slipper | det |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slipper | compound |
| 16 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bride | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bride | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bride | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | participle · passive | the young prince | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | put | could | a proclamation | the glass slipper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | should | a proclamation | Prince's bride | 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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