The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 94

And this was the counsel of the Wise Man--that he should invite all the people in the countryside to a ball, and among them the bold and impudent thief would be sure to come, and would be sure to ask the king’s daughter to dance with him.

Who acts: this, man, bold thief · What happens: be, invite, come, ask, dance · To what, where: counsel, people, countryside, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (this, man, bold thief), 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	_	5 counsel	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 counsel	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 counsel	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 counsel	det
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Man	det
8	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Man	amod
9	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counsel	nmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 invite	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 invite	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 invite	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 invite	aux
14	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 counsel	parataxis
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 people	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 invite	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 countryside	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 countryside	det
20	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 people	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 ball	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ball	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 people	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sure	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sure	cc
26	among	among	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sure	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thief	det
29	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thief	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 impudent	cc
31	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bold	conj
32	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sure	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 sure	cop
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 invite	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sure	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sure	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sure	cc
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 sure	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 sure	cop
42	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sure	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 ask	mark
44	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sure	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 king	det
46	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 daughter	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 king	case
48	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ask	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 dance	mark
50	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 ask	ccomp
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 dance	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 counsel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the counsel			of the Wise Man	tree rules
2	invite	should	man		all people	the countryside	to a ball	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	is	would	the bold thief				among people; sure property	tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	the bold thief not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	would					sure property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			the king's daughter			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
7	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive					with man	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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