The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 32

On the fourth day the king of Khaistan took his host aside, and asked him whether it was true, as he had suspected, that he wished to marry his daughter.

Who acts: king, host · What happens: take, ask, be, suspect, wish, marry · To what, where: host, king, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, host), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Khaistan	case
8	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 host	nmod:poss
11	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	iobj
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 true	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 true	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 true	cop
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 asked	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 suspected	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 suspected	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suspected	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 suspected	aux
25	suspected	suspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 true	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wished	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wished	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wished	nsubj
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 suspected	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 marry	mark
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	xcomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 daughter	nmod:poss
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marry	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the king of Khaistan	king's host		day	aside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the king of Khaistan not said here		king			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	host				true property	tree rules
4	suspect	past · perfect · passive		king				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
5	wish	past	king					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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