The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 21

And when the youth inquired if he could have a place in the King’s palace, the King was so delighted that he could have danced on the steps where he was standing, and there and then the lad was told that he should have a place.

Who acts: youth, King · What happens: inquire, have, be, dance, stand, tell · To what, where: place, palace, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 inquired	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 inquired	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inquired	nsubj
5	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 inquired	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 palace	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 King	case
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 delighted	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 delighted	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 delighted	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 delighted	advmod
22	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 danced	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 danced	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 danced	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 danced	aux
27	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 delighted	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 steps	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 steps	det
30	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 danced	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 standing	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 standing	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 standing	aux
34	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 steps	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 there	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 there	cc
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 danced	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 told	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 told	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lad	det
41	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 told	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 told	aux:pass
43	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 there	conj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 have	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 have	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 have	aux
47	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 told	ccomp
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 place	det
49	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 have	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	participle	the youth					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have a condition, not said to happen	could	youth	a place	the King's palace			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
3	is	past	the King				delighted property	tree rules
4	dance	could · perfect	King				on the steps	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location
5	stand	past · progressive	King					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the lad		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	have	should	King	a place				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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