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The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 17

Now when the boy had come to his full strength the King of that country fell in love with his mother, and wanted to marry her, but he knew that she would never part from her boy.

Who acts: boy, King, Princess · What happens: come, fall, want, marry, know, not part · To what, where: full strength, love, Princess · 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 (boy, King, Princess), 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

advmodadvmoddetnsubjauxcasenmod:possamodobldetnsubjcasedetnmodacl:relclcaseoblcasenmod:possoblpunctccparataxismarkxcompobjpunctccnsubjconjmarknsubjauxadvmodccompcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootNowADVwhenADVtheDETboyNOUNhadAUXcomeVERBtoADPhisPRONfullADJstrengthNOUNtheDETKingPROPNofADPthatDETcountryNOUNfellVERBinADPloveNOUNwithADPhisPRONmotherNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwantedVERBtoPARTmarryVERBherPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONknewVERBthatSCONJshePRONwouldAUXneverADVpartNOUNfromADPherPRONboyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem6 comeadvmod
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int6 comeadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 boydet
4boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing6 comensubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 comeaux
6comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
7totoADP_10 strengthcase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 strengthnmod:poss
9fullfullADJDegree=Pos10 strengthamod
10strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing6 comeobl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Kingdet
12KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing16 fellnsubj
13ofofADP_15 countrycase
14thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem15 countrydet
15countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing12 Kingnmod
16fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 strengthacl:relcl
17ininADP_18 lovecase
18loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing16 fellobl
19withwithADP_21 mothercase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 mothernmod:poss
21mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing16 fellobl
22,,PUNCT_24 wantedpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 wantedcc
24wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 comeparataxis
25totoPART_26 marrymark
26marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf24 wantedxcomp
27hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 marryobj
28,,PUNCT_31 knewpunct
29butbutCCONJ_31 knewcc
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 knewnsubj
31knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 wantedconj
32thatthatSCONJ_36 partmark
33sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 partnsubj
34wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin36 partaux
35neverneverADVPronType=Neg36 partadvmod
36partpartNOUNNumber=Sing31 knewccomp
37fromfromADP_39 boycase
38herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 boynmod:poss
39boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing36 partnmod
40..PUNCT_6 comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepast · perfectthe boyboy's full strengthnowvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to strength=Initial_Location
2fallpastthe King of that countryboy's full strength not said herelovewith boy's mothervn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient strength=Result
3wantpastvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4marry not said to happento-infinitivePrincessvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5knowpastboyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6not partwouldPrincessfrom Princess's boytree rules

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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