The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 33

Of course the king and queen would have preferred a daughter-in-law with two hands, and one who could have brought riches with her, but they could not bear to say ‘No’ to their son, so they told him it should be as he chose, and that the wedding feast should be prepared immediately.

Who acts: king, riches, hand · What happens: prefer, bring, not bear, say, tell, be · To what, where: law, one, No, son, king, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, riches, hand), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 course	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 preferred	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 preferred	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 queen	cc
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	conj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 preferred	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 preferred	aux
9	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 law	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 law	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 law	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 law	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 in	punct
15	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 preferred	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 hands	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hands	nummod
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 law	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 brought	nsubj:pass
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 brought	nsubj:pass
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 brought	aux
25	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 preferred	conj
26	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 brought	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bear	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 bear	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bear	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 bear	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 bear	advmod
34	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 preferred	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 say	mark
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 bear	xcomp
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 No	punct
38	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 say	obj
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 No	punct
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 son	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 son	nmod:poss
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 say	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 told	punct
44	so	so	ADV	_	46 told	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	nsubj
46	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 preferred	parataxis
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	iobj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 chose	nsubj:outer
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 chose	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 chose	cop
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 chose	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 chose	nsubj
53	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 told	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 prepared	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 prepared	cc
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 prepared	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 feast	det
58	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 feast	compound
59	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 prepared	nsubj:pass
60	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 prepared	aux
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 prepared	aux:pass
62	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 told	conj
63	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	62 prepared	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 preferred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	would · perfect	the king and queen	a law		of course; with two hands	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus
2	bring	could · perfect · passive		one		with daughter	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination rich=Theme
3	not bear	could	riches = rich				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	riches = rich not said here	No	riches's son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to son=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	riches = rich		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	is	should	hand			choose property	tree rules
7	prepare	should · passive		the wedding feast		immediately property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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