The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 93

The king told her that the Red Knight had won her fairly, and that the wedding would take place next day, and there would be a great feast after it.

Who acts: king, Red Knight, wedding · What happens: tell, win, take · To what, where: princess, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Red Knight, wedding), 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 won	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Knight	det
7	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Knight	flat
8	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 won	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 won	aux
10	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 won	obj
12	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	10 won	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wedding	det
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	parataxis
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 be	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 be	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 be	expl
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 be	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 feast	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feast	amod
30	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 be	nsubj
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 feast	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the king		princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	win	past · perfect	the Red Knight	princess			fairly property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	take	would	the wedding	place		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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