The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 58
And he invited all the handsomest young men he could think of to the palace, and bade the princess choose a husband from among them.
Who acts: beautiful, bade · What happens: invite, think, choose · To what, where: handsomest young men, husband
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful, bade), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 invited | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invited | nsubj |
| 3 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 men | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 6 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 men | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 invited | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invited | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 think | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 choose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 choose | cc |
| 18 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 choose | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 choose | nsubj |
| 21 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invited | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 husband | det |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 choose | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 choose | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | beautiful | all handsomest young men | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | beautiful | of the palace | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | bade | a husband | from men = man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent husband=Theme from they=Source |
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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