The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 126

Then they wept bitterly because the Prince had not come, and it was impossible for them to hold out any longer; it was necessary that they should be married.

Who acts: workmen, Prince · What happens: weep, not come, be, hold out, marry · To what, where: workmen

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workmen, Prince), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wept	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 impossible	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 impossible	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 impossible	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 impossible	cop
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wept	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 hold	mark
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hold	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hold	mark
19	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 impossible	ccomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 hold	compound:prt
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 hold	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 necessary	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 necessary	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 necessary	cop
26	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wept	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 married	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 married	nsubj:pass
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 married	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 married	aux:pass
31	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 necessary	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	workmen = workman		then	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not come	past	the Prince				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	workmen = workman not said here			impossible property	tree rules
4	hold out	to-infinitive	workmen = workman			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	workmen = workman not said here			necessary property	tree rules
6	marry	should · passive		workmen = workman			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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