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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 48

During one of these wars he had heard reports of the Princess Lineik’s beauty, and he resolved to seek her out, and to ask for her hand in marriage.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: hear, resolve, seek out, ask, report · To what, where: reports, Lineik, marriage, beauty

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 (Prince), 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

caseoblcasedetoblnsubjauxobjcasedetcompoundnmod:posscasenmodpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompobjcompound:prtpunctccmarkparataxiscasenmod:possoblcaseoblpunctrootDuringADPoneNUMofADPtheseDETwarsNOUNhePRONhadAUXheardVERBreportsNOUNofADPtheDETPrincessPROPNLineikPROPN’sPARTbeautyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONresolvedVERBtoPARTseekVERBherPRONoutADP,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTaskVERBforADPherPRONhandNOUNinADPmarriageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DuringduringADP_2 onecase
2oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 heardobl
3ofofADP_5 warscase
4thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem5 warsdet
5warswarNOUNNumber=Plur8 heardobl
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 heardnsubj
7hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 heardaux
8heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
9reportsreportNOUNNumber=Plur8 heardobj
10ofofADP_15 beautycase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Lineikdet
12PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing13 Lineikcompound
13LineikLineikPROPNNumber=Sing15 beautynmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 Lineikcase
15beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing9 reportsnmod
16,,PUNCT_19 resolvedpunct
17andandCCONJ_19 resolvedcc
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 resolvednsubj
19resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 heardconj
20totoPART_21 seekmark
21seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf19 resolvedxcomp
22hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 seekobj
23outoutADP_21 seekcompound:prt
24,,PUNCT_27 askpunct
25andandCCONJ_27 askcc
26totoPART_27 askmark
27askaskVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin8 heardparataxis
28forforADP_30 handcase
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 handnmod:poss
30handhandNOUNNumber=Sing27 askobl
31ininADP_32 marriagecase
32marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing27 askobl
33..PUNCT_8 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpast · perfectPrincereports of the Princess Lineik's beautyduring oneof this warsvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer report=Stimulus
2resolvepastPrincetree rules
3seek outto-infinitivePrince not said hereLineikvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4ask speech: askto-infinitivemarriagefor Lineik's handvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5reportthe Princess Lineik's beautynom report «communication 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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