The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 60

Princes come from all quarters to ask her hand, and on one and all she imposes a condition.

Who acts: Princes, one · What happens: come, ask, impose · To what, where: quarters, hand, condition

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, one), 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	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 quarters	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 quarters	det
5	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 imposes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 imposes	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 imposes	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 all	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	conj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 imposes	nsubj
17	imposes	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 condition	det
19	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 imposes	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	Princes		all quarters	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from quarter=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Princes not said here	daughter's hand		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient
3	impose	present	one	a condition		vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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