The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 47

The final tourney should be fought; Geirald and Rosald should meet singly two knights of the king’s court, and he who could unhorse his foe should be master of herself and of her kingdom.

Who acts: Geirald, foe · What happens: fight, meet, unhorse, be · To what, where: final tourney, two knights, master

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 (Geirald, foe), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tourney	det
2	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tourney	amod
3	tourney	tourney	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fought	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fought	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fought	aux:pass
6	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 meet	punct
8	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 meet	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Rosald	cc
10	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Geirald	conj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 meet	aux
12	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fought	parataxis
13	singly	singly	ADV	_	14 two	advmod
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 knights	nummod
15	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 meet	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 court	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 court	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knights	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 unhorse	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 unhorse	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 unhorse	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 unhorse	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 unhorse	aux
26	unhorse	unhorse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 meet	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 foe	nmod:poss
28	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 master	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 master	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 master	cop
31	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 unhorse	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 herself	case
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 master	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 kingdom	cc
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 kingdom	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 kingdom	nmod:poss
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 herself	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	should · passive		the final tourney		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	meet	should	Geirald and Rosald	two knights of the king's court		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent
3	unhorse	could	Geirald			tree rules
4	is a	should	Geirald's foe	master	of crowd	tree rules

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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