Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 250

“And thou wilt go to prison!” and that he was obliged to do--for the sentinels obeyed him whom they knew the king's daughter was to marry.

Who acts: thou, sentinels, daughter · What happens: go, oblige, do, obey, know, be · To what, where: prison, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, sentinels, daughter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 go	nsubj
4	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 prison	case
7	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 obliged	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 obliged	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 obliged	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 go	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	xcomp
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 obeyed	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 obeyed	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sentinels	det
20	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 obeyed	nsubj
21	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 obeyed	obj
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 knew	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 obeyed	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 king	case
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 marry	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 marry	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 marry	mark
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 knew	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	thou		prison		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location
2	oblige	past · passive		man			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	obey	past	the sentinels	man			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	know	past	sentinels = sentinel				tree rules
6	is	past	the king's daughter			marry 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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