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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 86

Asmund, on his side, asked for the hand of Prince Ring’s sister, which was gladly granted him, and the double wedding was celebrated with great rejoicings.

Who acts: Asmund · What happens: ask, grant, celebrate · To what, where: sister, double wedding

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 (Asmund), 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

nsubjpunctcasenmod:possappospunctcasedetoblcasecompoundnmod:posscasenmodpunctnsubj:passaux:passadvmodacl:relclobjpunctccdetamodnsubj:passaux:passparataxiscaseamodoblpunctrootAsmundPROPN,PUNCTonADPhisPRONsideNOUN,PUNCTaskedVERBforADPtheDEThandNOUNofADPPrincePROPNRingPROPN’sPARTsisterNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXgladlyADVgrantedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETdoubleADJweddingNOUNwasAUXcelebratedVERBwithADPgreatADJrejoicingsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsmundAsmundPROPNNumber=Sing7 askednsubj
2,,PUNCT_5 sidepunct
3ononADP_5 sidecase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 sidenmod:poss
5sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing1 Asmundappos
6,,PUNCT_1 Asmundpunct
7askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8forforADP_10 handcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 handdet
10handhandNOUNNumber=Sing7 askedobl
11ofofADP_15 sistercase
12PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing13 Ringcompound
13RingRingPROPNNumber=Sing15 sisternmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 Ringcase
15sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing10 handnmod
16,,PUNCT_20 grantedpunct
17whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel20 grantednsubj:pass
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 grantedaux:pass
19gladlygladlyADV_20 grantedadvmod
20grantedgrantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 sisteracl:relcl
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 grantedobj
22,,PUNCT_28 celebratedpunct
23andandCCONJ_28 celebratedcc
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 weddingdet
25doubledoubleADJDegree=Pos26 weddingamod
26weddingweddingNOUNNumber=Sing28 celebratednsubj:pass
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 celebratedaux:pass
28celebratedcelebrateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 askedparataxis
29withwithADP_31 rejoicingscase
30greatgreatADJDegree=Pos31 rejoicingsamod
31rejoicingsrejoicingNOUNNumber=Plur28 celebratedobl
32..PUNCT_7 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastAsmundfor the hand of Prince Ring's sistervn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2grantpast · passivePrince Ring's sistergladly propertyvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme
3celebratepast · passivethe double weddingwith great rejoicingsvn judgment-33.1-1 «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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