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The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 72

Jack’s fame had now spread through the whole country, and at the King’s desire the duke gave him his daughter in marriage, to the joy of all his kingdom.

Who acts: duke, King · What happens: spread, give, desire, joy · To what, where: fame, whole country, daughter, desire, kingdom

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duke, King), 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

nmod:posscasensubj:passauxadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctcccasedetnmod:posscaseobldetnsubjconjiobjnmod:possiobjcaseoblpunctcasedetoblcasedet:predetnmod:possnmodpunctrootJackPROPN’sPARTfameNOUNhadAUXnowADVspreadVERBthroughADPtheDETwholeADJcountryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJatADPtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTdesireNOUNtheDETdukePROPNgaveVERBhimPRONhisPRONdaughterNOUNinADPmarriageNOUN,PUNCTtoADPtheDETjoyNOUNofADPallDEThisPRONkingdomNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing3 famenmod:poss
2’s'sPART_1 Jackcase
3famefameNOUNNumber=Sing6 spreadnsubj:pass
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 spreadaux
5nownowADVPronType=Dem6 spreadadvmod
6spreadspreadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7throughthroughADP_10 countrycase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 countrydet
9wholewholeADJDegree=Pos10 countryamod
10countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing6 spreadobl
11,,PUNCT_20 gavepunct
12andandCCONJ_20 gavecc
13atatADP_17 desirecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Kingdet
15KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing17 desirenmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 Kingcase
17desiredesireNOUNNumber=Sing20 gaveobl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 dukedet
19dukeDukePROPNNumber=Sing20 gavensubj
20gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 spreadconj
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 gaveiobj
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 daughternmod:poss
23daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing20 gaveiobj
24ininADP_25 marriagecase
25marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing20 gaveobl
26,,PUNCT_29 joypunct
27totoADP_29 joycase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 joydet
29joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing20 gaveobl
30ofofADP_33 kingdomcase
31allallDETPronType=Tot33 kingdomdet:predet
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 kingdomnmod:poss
33kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing29 joynmod
34..PUNCT_6 spreadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spreadpast · perfect · passiveJack's famethe whole countrynowvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme through country=Destination
2givepastthe dukeJack's daughterthe King's desirein marriage; to the joy of Jack's kingdomvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme at desire=Asset
3desirethe Kingnom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
4joyJack's kingdomnom joy «feeling transitive»: of=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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