The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 16

Now Diamantina, for that was her name, did not reach her fifteenth birthday without proposals for marriage from every country under heaven; but be the suitor who he might, the king always said him nay.

Who acts: that, Diamantina, suitor · What happens: be, not reach, say · To what, where: fifteenth birthday, suitor, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Diamantina, suitor), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Diamantina	advmod
2	Diamantina	Diamantina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 reach	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Diamantina	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 name	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 name	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 name	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Diamantina	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Diamantina	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reach	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 reach	advmod
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 birthday	nmod:poss
14	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 birthday	amod
15	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 proposals	case
17	proposals	proposal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reach	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 marriage	case
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proposals	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 country	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 country	det
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marriage	nmod
23	under	under	ADP	_	24 heaven	case
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 country	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 suitor	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 suitor	cc
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 suitor	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 suitor	det
29	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 said	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 might	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 who	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 who	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 said	advmod
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 suitor	acl:relcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	obj
39	nay	nay	INTJ	_	37 said	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 reach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	that		for Diamantina's name	tree rules
2	not reach	past · do-support	Diamantina	Diamantina's fifteenth birthday	without proposals for marriage from every country under heaven	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme
3	is a	infinitive		the suitor		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the suitor	king	always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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