The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 52

The prince, like the king of Khaistan, determined that he would send in return a gift that would be truly royal, and which would perhaps prevent the unknown giver sending him anything more.

Who acts: prince, gift · What happens: determine, send, be, prevent · To what, where: gift, return, unknown giver, anything, prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, gift), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determined	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prince	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Khaistan	case
8	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 prince	punct
10	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 send	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 send	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 send	aux
14	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 determined	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 return	case
16	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 send	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gift	det
18	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 send	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 royal	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 royal	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 royal	cop
22	truly	truly	ADV	_	23 royal	advmod
23	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gift	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 prevent	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prevent	cc
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 prevent	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 prevent	aux
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 prevent	advmod
29	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 determined	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 giver	det
31	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 giver	amod
32	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prevent	obj
33	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 prevent	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sending	obj
35	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 sending	obj
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 sending	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	past	the prince					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	send	would	prince	a gift		return		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme in return=Destination
3	is	would	a gift				royal, truly property	tree rules
4	prevent	would		the unknown giver			perhaps property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer giver=Theme
5	send	gerund		anything	prince			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination anything=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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