The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 13

His nobles hoped that he would have chosen a queen from one of their daughters, and tried to prevent the marriage; but the king would not listen to them, and it took place.

Who acts: nobles, tailor, king, it · What happens: hope, choose, try, prevent, not listen, take · To what, where: queen, marriage, nobles, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobles, tailor, king, it), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nobles	nmod:poss
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hoped	nsubj
3	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 chosen	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chosen	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 chosen	aux
8	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hoped	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chosen	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 chosen	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 daughters	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughters	nmod:poss
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tried	cc
18	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 prevent	mark
20	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 marriage	det
22	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prevent	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 listen	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 listen	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 listen	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 listen	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 listen	advmod
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hoped	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 listen	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 took	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 took	nsubj
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	conj
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 took	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hope	past	tailor's nobles				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	choose	would · perfect	tailor	a queen		from one of nobles's daughters	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent queen=Theme from one=Source
3	try	past	tailor's nobles not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	prevent not said to happen	to-infinitive	tailor's nobles not said here	the marriage			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme
5	not listen	would	the king		nobles = noble		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
6	take	past	it	place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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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