More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 106

Now the King of Canterbury had a beautiful daughter, who was distinguished by her great ingenuity and wit, and he issued a decree that whoever should answer three questions put to him by the princess should have her in marriage, and be heir to the crown at his decease.

Who acts: King, great ingenuity, decree, three questions · What happens: have, distinguish, issue, answer, put, be · To what, where: beautiful daughter, decree, Princess, marriage, heir, decease

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, great ingenuity, decree, three questions), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Canterbury	case
5	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughter	amod
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 distinguished	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 distinguished	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 distinguished	aux:pass
13	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 daughter	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 ingenuity	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ingenuity	nmod:poss
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ingenuity	amod
17	ingenuity	ingenuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 distinguished	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wit	cc
19	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ingenuity	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 issued	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 issued	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 issued	nsubj
23	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 decree	det
25	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 answer	nsubj
27	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 answer	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 answer	aux
29	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 decree	acl
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 questions	nummod
31	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	nsubj
32	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 answer	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 princess	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 have	aux
39	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 issued	ccomp
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 marriage	case
42	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 heir	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 heir	cc
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 heir	cop
46	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	parataxis
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 crown	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 crown	det
49	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heir	nmod
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 decease	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 decease	nmod:poss
52	decease	decease	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heir	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King of Canterbury	a beautiful daughter			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	distinguish	past · passive	Canterbury's great ingenuity and wit	a beautiful daughter					vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute subject=Theme
3	issue	past	King						tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	should	a decree						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	put	past	three questions		decree			by the princess	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by princess=Destination
6	have	should	a decree	Princess		marriage			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	is a	infinitive		heir		decree's decease		to the crown	tree rules
8	decease		decree						nom decease «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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