The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 107

At last the chief men of the kingdom, anxious to see their Princess married, sent to the Queen to beg her to choose a husband for her as soon as possible.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: see, marry, send, beg, choose · To what, where: Princess, Queen, husband

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anxious	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 anxious	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 kingdom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kingdom	det
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anxious	punct
10	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 anxious	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Princess	nmod:poss
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 see	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 anxious	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Queen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 beg	mark
22	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beg	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 choose	mark
25	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beg	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 husband	det
27	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 choose	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 choose	obl
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 soon	advmod
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 choose	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 possible	mark
33	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soon	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		matters's Princess			tree rules
2	marry	participle	matters's Princess not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	send	participle			the Queen		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to queen=Destination
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			queen		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	choose	to-infinitive		a husband		for queen; soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for she=Beneficiary

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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