Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 50

And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, ‘I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.’--And they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king’s heir.

Who acts: king, I · What happens: ask, choose, answer, not be, have, marry · To what, where: soldier, eldest, princesses, heir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 asked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 choose	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 choose	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 choose	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 choose	aux
12	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 soldier	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 choose	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 answered	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 young	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 young	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 young	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 young	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 young	advmod
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 young	advmod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 answered	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 have	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 eldest	det
33	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 married	punct
37	And	and	CCONJ	_	40 married	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 married	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 married	aux:pass
40	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asked	ccomp
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 day	mark
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 day	advmod
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 married	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 chosen	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 chosen	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 soldier	det
47	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chosen	nsubj:pass
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 chosen	aux:pass
49	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asked	parataxis
50	to	to	PART	_	55 heir	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 heir	cop
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 king	det
53	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 heir	nmod:poss
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 king	case
55	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chosen	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the king	the soldier			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic
2	choose	would	king	the soldier		of princesses = princess; for king's wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
3	answer speech: assert	past	king				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	I			young property	tree rules
5	have	future	I	the eldest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eld=Patient
6	marry	past · passive		princesses = princess	day		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	choose	past · passive		the soldier			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	is a	to-infinitive		the king's heir			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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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