The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 76

The following morning the king of the country happened to step on to his balcony, and saw the young men in the garden, and said to himself, “Dear me, those are wonderfully handsome youths; but one is handsomer than the other, and to him will I give my daughter to wife;” and indeed the king’s son excelled his friend in beauty.

Who acts: following morning, one, I, son · What happens: follow, happen, step on, see, say, be · To what, where: balcony, young men, garden, man, handsome youths, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following morning, one, I, son), 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 morning	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happened	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happened	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 step	mark
11	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 happened	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 step	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 balcony	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 balcony	nmod:poss
15	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 step	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 garden	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 garden	det
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Dear	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Dear	punct
32	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	parataxis
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 Dear	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 youths	punct
35	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 youths	det
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 youths	cop
37	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	39 youths	advmod
38	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 youths	amod
39	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Dear	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 handsomer	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 handsomer	cc
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 handsomer	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 handsomer	cop
44	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 happened	conj
45	than	than	ADP	_	47 other	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 other	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 handsomer	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 give	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 give	cc
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	obl
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 give	aux
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 give	nsubj
54	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 happened	conj
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 daughter	nmod:poss
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 give	obj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 wife	mark
58	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 give	xcomp
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 happened	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 happened	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 excelled	cc
62	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	66 son	advmod
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 king	det
64	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 son	nmod:poss
65	’s	's	PART	_	64 king	case
66	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 excelled	nsubj
67	excelled	excel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	conj
68	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 friend	nmod:poss
69	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 excelled	obj
70	in	in	ADP	_	71 beauty	case
71	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 excelled	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past	the following morning					tree rules
3	step on	to-infinitive	the following morning not said here			way's balcony		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to balcony=Destination
4	see	past	the following morning not said here	the young men		the garden		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past			man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present		that handsome youths			wonderfully property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	present	one				than the other; handsome property	tree rules
8	give in a quote	future	I	my daughter	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Recipient
9	excel	past	the king's son	son's friend		beauty		tree rules

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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