The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 108

And one day, when they and their father were walking on the lawn, the king began to joke with them, and to ask them whom they would like to be married to.

Who acts: daughters, king · What happens: walk, begin, joke, ask, like, marry · To what, where: lawn, daughters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walking	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 walking	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walking	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 father	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 they	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 walking	aux
11	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 day	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 lawn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lawn	det
14	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 joke	mark
20	joke	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 joke	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ask	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ask	mark
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 joke	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ask	iobj
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 like	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ask	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	34 married	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 married	aux:pass
34	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 like	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	34 married	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	daughters = daughter		the lawn			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory
2	begin	past	the king			day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	joke speech: other	to-infinitive	the king not said here				with daughters = daughter	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the king not said here	daughters = daughter				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	like	would	daughters = daughter					tree rules
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	daughters = daughter not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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