The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 46

The boy was still young when, one day, the king said to his wife: “I feel that the hour of my death draws near, and I want you to promise that you will never take another husband but will give up your life to the care of our son.”

Who acts: boy, king, I, hour, you, my · What happens: be, say, feel, draw, want, promise · To what, where: wife, you, husband, life, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, king, I, hour), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 feel	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 feel	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 feel	nsubj
20	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 young	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 draws	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draws	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 death	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 death	nmod:poss
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hour	nmod
27	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 feel	advcl
28	near	near	ADV	_	27 draws	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 want	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 want	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 want	nsubj
32	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 feel	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 want	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 promise	mark
35	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 want	xcomp
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 take	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 take	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 take	aux
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 take	advmod
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 promise	ccomp
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 husband	det
42	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	obj
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 give	cc
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 give	aux
45	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 feel	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 give	compound:prt
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 life	nmod:poss
48	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 give	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 care	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 care	det
51	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 give	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 son	case
53	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 son	nmod:poss
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 care	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy			still	young property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king		king's wife	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
3	feel in a quote	present	I					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	draw in a quote	present	the hour of my death				near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want in a quote	present	I	you				tree rules
6	promise speech: promise not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not take in a quote	future	you		another husband			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination
8	give up in a quote	future	I not said here	your life	the care of our son			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to care=Recipient
9	die in a quote		my					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
10	care in a quote		our son					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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