The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 107

And the King and Queen made much of the boy, and could not contain themselves for delight when they found he wanted to marry their daughter.

Who acts: King, beasts · What happens: make, not contain, find, want, marry · To what, where: much, beasts, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, beasts), 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 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Queen	cc
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	conj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 much	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 contain	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 contain	cc
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 contain	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 contain	advmod
15	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	advcl
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 contain	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 delight	case
18	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contain	obl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 found	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 contain	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wanted	nsubj
23	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 marry	mark
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wanted	xcomp
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marry	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the King and Queen	much of the boy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Product
2	not contain	could	the King and Queen not said here	beasts = beast	for delight	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
3	find	past	beasts = beast			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	want	past	king			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	beasts'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 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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