The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 209

The King was pleased beyond measure at the sights but his greed for gold was still not satisfied, and he had the miller’s daughter brought into a yet bigger room full of straw, and said: “You must spin all this away in the night; but if you succeed this time you shall become my wife.”

Who acts: King, greed, daughter, You · What happens: be, not be, have, bring, say, spin away · To what, where: sights, bigger room, this, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, greed, daughter, You), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 measure	case
6	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sights	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sights	det
9	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pleased	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 satisfied	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 greed	nmod:poss
12	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 satisfied	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 greed	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 satisfied	cop
16	still	still	ADV	_	18 satisfied	advmod
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 satisfied	advmod
18	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleased	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 miller	det
24	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 miller	case
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	nsubj
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	ccomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	32 room	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 room	det
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 bigger	advmod
31	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 room	amod
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 room	amod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 straw	case
35	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 spin	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 spin	punct
41	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 spin	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 spin	aux
43	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 this	det:predet
45	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 spin	obj
46	away	away	ADV	_	43 spin	advmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 night	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 night	det
49	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 spin	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 become	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 become	cc
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 succeed	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 succeed	nsubj
54	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 become	advcl
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 time	det
56	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 succeed	obj
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 become	nsubj
58	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 become	aux
59	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleased	parataxis
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 wife	nmod:poss
61	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 become	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		the sights		beyond measure; pleased property	tree rules
2	not is	past	King's greed for gold			still	satisfied property	tree rules
3	have	past	King					tree rules
4	bring	past	the miller's daughter		a bigger room			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	the miller's daughter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	spin away in a quote	must	You	this		night	away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=Theme
7	succeed a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			time		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	become in a quote	shall	you	my wife				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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