The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 80

After this they met every day as they guarded their flocks, and were so happy that Prince Peerless begged the Princess to marry him, so that they might never be parted again.

Who acts: flowers, Peerless · What happens: meet, guard, be, beg, marry, not part · To what, where: flocks, Princess, Peerless, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, Peerless), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 met	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl:unmarked
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 guarded	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guarded	nsubj
9	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 flocks	nmod:poss
11	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guarded	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happy	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 happy	cc
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 happy	advmod
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 met	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 begged	mark
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Peerless	nmod:desc
19	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 begged	nsubj
20	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begged	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Princess	acl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 marry	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 parted	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 parted	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 parted	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 parted	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 parted	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 parted	aux:pass
33	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 begged	conj
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 parted	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	flowers = flower			after this; day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	guard	past	flowers = flower	flowers's flocks				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Beneficiary
3	is	past					happy property	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	Peerless Prince		the Princess			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
5	marry	to-infinitive	Peerless Prince not said here	Peerless				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	not part	might · passive		flowers = flower		again		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «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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