The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 70

The old knight who had charge of the castle said that in his opinion it must have been some young knight, who had immediately set off to the king to claim the hand of the princess.

Who acts: old knight, charge, knight · What happens: have, say, be, set off, claim, charge · To what, where: charge, young knight, hand, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old knight, charge, knight), 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	3 knight	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knight	amod
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knight	acl:relcl
6	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charge	nmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 opinion	mark
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 opinion	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 opinion	nmod:poss
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knight	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 knight	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 knight	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 knight	cop
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 knight	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knight	amod
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opinion	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 set	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 set	aux
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	26 set	advmod
26	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knight	acl:relcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 king	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 claim	mark
32	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 set	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hand	det
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 claim	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 princess	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hand	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old knight	charge of the castle		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the old knight			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must · perfect	charge	some young knight		tree rules
4	set off	past · perfect · passive		some young knight	to the king; immediately property	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	claim speech: other	to-infinitive		the hand of the princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hand=Topic
6	charge			the castle		nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient
7	opine		knight			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: 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: «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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