Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 2

They wanted to go out and woo the King's daughter; for the maiden in question had publicly announced that she would choose for her husband that youth who could arrange his words best.

Who acts: men, proprietor, youth, husband · What happens: want, go out, woo, announce, choose, arrange · To what, where: daughter, question, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, proprietor, youth, husband), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 woo	cc
7	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woo	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 maiden	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 maiden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 question	case
17	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 announced	obl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 announced	aux
19	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	20 announced	advmod
20	announced	announce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 maiden	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 choose	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 choose	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 choose	aux
24	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 announced	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 husband	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 husband	nmod:poss
27	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 choose	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 youth	det
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 husband	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 arrange	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 arrange	aux
32	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 youth	acl:relcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 words	nmod:poss
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 arrange	obj
35	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 arrange	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	men = man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	woo	infinitive	men = man not said here	the King's daughter			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	announce speech: other	past · perfect			question	publicly property	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	choose	would	proprietor			for proprietor's husband that youth	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for husband=Beneficiary
6	arrange	could	that youth	husband's words		well property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Product
7	word		husband				nom word «communication 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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