The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 24

He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children—a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy.

Who acts: king · What happens: marry, love, have, promise, call, name · To what, where: king, wife, two promising children, son, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 married	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	obl
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 loved	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	nsubj
9	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	10 loved	advmod
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 children	nummod
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 promising	advmod
16	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	conj
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 son	acl
22	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 named	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 named	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 daughter	det
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 named	nsubj:pass
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 named	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 named	aux:pass
29	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 married	conj
30	Signy	Signy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 named	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		king	to a wife	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to wife=Co-Patient
2	love	past	king	a wife	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	have	past		two promising children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	promise speech: promise	gerund				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	call	participle		a son not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	name	past · passive		a daughter		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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