The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 113

Everybody cried out that the king must give the victor the hand of the princess; and so he did, and no one had ever seen such balls and feasts and sports before.

Who acts: Everybody, king, one · What happens: cry out, give, do, see · To what, where: victor, such balls

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, king, one), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 give	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 victor	det
10	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hand	det
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 did	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 did	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 seen	advmod
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cried	conj
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 balls	amod
29	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seen	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 feasts	cc
31	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 balls	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sports	cc
33	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 balls	conj
34	before	before	ADV	_	27 seen	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	Everybody				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	must	the king	the victor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent victor=Recipient hand=Theme
3	do	past	king				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past · perfect	no one	such balls and feasts and sports	ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

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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