More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 112
Whoever could show these signs should marry his daughter and have his kingdom after his death.
Who acts: Whoever, signs, lad · What happens: show, marry, have, die · To what, where: daughter, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, signs, lad), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 signs | det |
| 5 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | could | Whoever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry | should | this signs | lad's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | this signs not said here | lad's kingdom | after lad's death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | |||
| 4 | die | lad | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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