The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 10

He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other for himself and the youngest, whom he married, and there they are living still.

Who acts: Paul, castles · What happens: give, keep, marry, live · To what, where: two castles, eldest sisters, other

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, castles), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 castles	nummod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 castles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castles	det
6	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 sisters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sisters	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 sisters	amod
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 kept	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 youngest	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youngest	det
20	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 kept	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 married	punct
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 married	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 married	nsubj
24	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 youngest	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 living	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 living	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 living	expl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 living	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 living	aux
30	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
31	still	still	ADV	_	30 living	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Paul	the two castles	the eldest sisters				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent castle=Theme to sister=Recipient
2	keep	past	Paul not said here	the other				for Paul	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
3	marry	past	Paul						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
4	live	present · progressive	castles = castle			there	still		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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