The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 11

“What a wife she would make for the king,” thought the minister to himself, and before long he had begged the honour of her hand for his master.

Who acts: wife, minister, king · What happens: make, think, beg, honour · To what, where: king, honour, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, minister, king), 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	_	7 make	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 wife	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 minister	det
15	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begged	cc
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 long	case
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 begged	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 begged	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 begged	aux
24	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 honour	det
26	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begged	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 honour	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 master	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 master	nmod:poss
32	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begged	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	would	what wife			for the king	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary
2	think speech: other	past	the minister		king		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past · perfect	king	the honour of wife's hand		for king's master	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent honour=Recipient for master=Topic
4	honour			wife's hand			nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient

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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