The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 190

When the audience hall was quite full, the Fairy said to the subjects of the Wicked King that if they would accept Delicia, who was the daughter of the Jolly King, as their Queen, she would undertake to find a suitable husband for her, and would promise that during their reign there should be nothing but rejoicing and merry-making, and all dismal things should be entirely banished.

Who acts: audience hall, Fairy, ladies, Delicia · What happens: be, say, accept, undertake, find, promise · To what, where: Delicia, daughter, suitable husband, that, nothing, dismal things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (audience hall, Fairy, ladies, Delicia), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 full	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
3	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hall	compound
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 full	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 full	advmod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 undertake	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 full	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 subjects	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 subjects	det
14	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 King	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
17	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 King	amod
18	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 subjects	nmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 accept	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 accept	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 accept	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 accept	aux
23	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
24	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 accept	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 daughter	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 daughter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 daughter	det
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Delicia	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 King	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
32	Jolly	Jolly	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 King	compound
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Queen	punct
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 Queen	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Queen	nmod:poss
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 accept	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 full	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 undertake	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 undertake	aux
41	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
42	to	to	PART	_	43 find	mark
43	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 undertake	xcomp
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 husband	det
45	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 husband	amod
46	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 find	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 find	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 promise	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 promise	cc
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 promise	aux
52	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 undertake	conj
53	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 promise	obj
54	during	during	ADP	_	56 reign	case
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 reign	nmod:poss
56	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 nothing	obl
57	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	59 be	expl
58	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 be	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 nothing	cop
60	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 promise	parataxis
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 rejoicing	cc
62	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 nothing	conj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 making	cc
64	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 making	amod
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 merry	punct
66	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 nothing	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 banished	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 banished	cc
69	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	71 things	det
70	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 things	amod
71	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 banished	nsubj:pass
72	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	75 banished	aux
73	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	75 banished	aux:pass
74	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	75 banished	advmod
75	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 undertake	conj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 undertake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the audience hall			full property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy			to the subjects of the Wicked King	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to subject=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	accept a condition, not said to happen	would	ladies = lady	Delicia		as ladies's Queen	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent delicia=Theme as queen=Attribute
4	is a	past	Delicia	the daughter		of the Jolly King	tree rules
5	undertake	would	fairy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	find	to-infinitive	fairy not said here	a suitable husband		for Delicia	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for she=Beneficiary
7	promise speech: promise	would	fairy not said here	that			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme
8	is a	infinitive		nothing	during ladies's reign		tree rules
9	rejoice	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	make	gerund					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
11	banish	should · passive		all dismal things		entirely property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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