The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 82

The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. There was also much treasure hid in the castle, guarded by evil spirits, which would then be free, and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich.

Who acts: King, man, wife, much treasure, evil spirits · What happens: promise, dare, do, be, hide, guard · To what, where: man, thing, sun., castle, poor man

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, man, wife, much treasure), 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 promised	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	aux
4	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dared	nsubj
8	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dared	xcomp
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 thing	det
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 wife	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 maiden	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 maiden	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 maiden	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 maiden	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maiden	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 maiden	amod
24	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 promised	conj
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 sun.	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun.	det
27	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 maiden	obl
28	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 maiden	parataxis
30	also	also	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 treasure	amod
32	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hid	nsubj
33	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 was	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hid	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 guarded	punct
38	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 castle	acl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 spirits	case
40	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spirits	amod
41	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 guarded	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 free	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 free	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 free	aux
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 free	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 free	cop
47	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spirits	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sufficient	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sufficient	cc
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 sufficient	cop
51	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 promised	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 make	mark
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 sufficient	csubj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 man	det
55	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 man	amod
56	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 make	obj
57	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 make	advmod
58	than	than	ADP	_	59 rich	case
59	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 more	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	the King		the man				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	dare	past	the man						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive	the man not said here	this thing				as wife	tree rules
4	is	past	wife			the sun.		maiden property	tree rules
5	be	past				there			tree rules
6	hide	past	much treasure			the castle			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location
7	guard	participle		the castle not said here				by evil spirits	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	is	would	evil spirits				then	free property	tree rules
9	is	past	the King not said here					sufficient property	tree rules
10	make	to-infinitive		a poor man					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product

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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