The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 79
But this second search was no more fortunate than the first, and at last the king issued a proclamation that whoever found the missing slipper should be made heir to the crown, and should marry the princess.
Who acts: second search, whoever · What happens: not be, issue, find, make, marry · To what, where: last, proclamation, princess
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 (second search, whoever), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 fortunate | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 search | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 search | amod |
| 4 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fortunate | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fortunate | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 fortunate | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 fortunate | advmod |
| 8 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 first | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 fortunate | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 issued | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 issued | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 issued | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 last | nsubj |
| 18 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fortunate | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 proclamation | det |
| 20 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 found | obj |
| 22 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 proclamation | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 slipper | det |
| 25 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 slipper | amod |
| 26 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 issued | ccomp |
| 30 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 crown | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 crown | det |
| 33 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heir | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 marry | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 marry | cc |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 marry | aux |
| 37 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 issued | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marry | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | this second search | than the first; fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | issue | past | last | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | past | whoever | a proclamation | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme slipper=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | make | should · passive | a proclamation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary heir=Product | |||||
| 5 | marry | should | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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