Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 42

So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.

Who acts: king, decree · What happens: put, be, make, marry, laugh · To what, where: laugh, goose

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, decree), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 decree	det
7	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marry	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 able	nsubj
9	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 able	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 able	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 decree	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 laugh	nmod:poss
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 marry	aux
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 marry	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect	king		forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	should	a decree		able property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	a decree not said here	decree's laugh		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset laugh=Product
4	marry	should	a decree	goose		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	laugh		decree			nom laugh «communication intransitive»: 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: «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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