The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 33

Muffette grew every day more beautiful, and when she was fourteen the kings and emperors of the neighbouring countries sent to ask her in marriage for themselves or their sons.

Who acts: Muffette · What happens: grow, be, send, ask · To what, where: fourteen kings, fourteen, neighbouring countries, Muffette, marriage

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muffette), 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	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl:unmarked
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kings	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kings	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 fourteen	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fourteen	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fourteen	cop
12	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 kings	nummod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kings	det
14	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 emperors	cc
16	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kings	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 countries	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 countries	det
19	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 countries	amod
20	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 emperors	nmod
21	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 countries	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sent	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ask	iobj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 marriage	case
26	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 themselves	case
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 ask	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 sons	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sons	nmod:poss
31	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 themselves	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Muffette	the fourteen kings and emperors of the neighbouring countries			day	beautiful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Muffette	fourteen					tree rules
3	send	participle		the neighbouring countries not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			Muffette	marriage		for countries = country	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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