The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 15
And to whomsoever the child gave the apple, that man should marry the king’s daughter.
Who acts: child, man · What happens: give, marry · To what, where: apple, whomsoever, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, man), 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 | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 whomsoever | case |
| 3 | whomsoever | whomsoever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gave | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the child | the apple | whomsoever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to whomsoever=Recipient | |||
| 2 | marry | should | that man | the 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 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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