The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 10

Prince after prince had offered himself, but the young queen would have nothing to say to any of them, and at last told her ministers that if she was to have a husband at all she must choose him for herself, as she would certainly not marry any of those whom they had selected for her.

Who acts: young queen, queen, subjects · What happens: offer, have, say, tell, choose, not marry · To what, where: Prince, nothing, any, ministers, last, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young queen, queen, subjects), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 offered	nsubj:pass
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 prince	case
3	prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	nmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 offered	aux
5	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 offered	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 queen	amod
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 offered	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nothing	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 any	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 say	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 any	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obl
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 choose	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ministers	nmod:poss
27	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 have	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 have	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 husband	det
35	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 have	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 choose	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 choose	aux
40	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 offered	parataxis
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 choose	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 herself	case
43	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 choose	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 marry	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 marry	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 marry	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 marry	aux
48	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	50 marry	advmod
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 marry	advmod
50	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 choose	conj
51	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 marry	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 those	case
53	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	51 any	conj
54	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 selected	obj
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 selected	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 selected	aux
57	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 those	acl:relcl
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 her	case
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 selected	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past · perfect · passive		Prince after prince	Prince			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal himself=Theme
2	have	would	the young queen	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the young queen not said here	nothing not said here	any			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to any=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	past	queen not said here		queen's ministers	last		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	queen	a husband		all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
6	choose	must	queen	husband			for queen	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for herself=Beneficiary
7	not marry	would	queen	any			certainly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
8	select	past · perfect	subjects = subject				for queen	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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