The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 27

At last the Duke of Beloeil ordered the trumpet to be sounded, and a proclamation to be made that whoever could discover how his daughters wore out their shoes should choose one of them for his wife.

Who acts: last Duke, whoever, daughters, shoes · What happens: order, sound, make, discover, wear out, choose · To what, where: trumpet, one

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last Duke, whoever, daughters, shoes), 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	4 Duke	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Duke	det
4	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ordered	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Beloeil	case
6	Beloeil	Beloeil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Duke	nmod
7	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trumpet	det
9	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ordered	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 sounded	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sounded	aux:pass
12	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 trumpet	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 proclamation	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 proclamation	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 proclamation	det
16	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ordered	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	19 made	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 proclamation	acl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 discover	mark
21	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 discover	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 discover	aux
23	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	xcomp
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 wore	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughters	nmod:poss
26	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wore	nsubj
27	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 discover	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 wore	compound:prt
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 shoes	nmod:poss
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 choose	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 choose	aux
32	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wore	ccomp
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 choose	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 one	nmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 wife	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 choose	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	the last Duke of Beloeil	the trumpet		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Theme
2	sound	to-infinitive · passive	the last Duke of Beloeil not said here	the trumpet not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»
3	make	to-infinitive · passive	the last Duke of Beloeil not said here			tree rules
4	discover	could	whoever			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	wear out	past	Duke's daughters			tree rules
6	choose	should	princesses's shoes	one of princesses	for Duke's wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for wife=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 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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