The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 45

After a time they all came to a town where a King reigned whose daughter was so serious and solemn that no one could ever manage to make her laugh.

Who acts: girls, King, daughter, one, seven · What happens: come, reign, be, manage, make, laugh · To what, where: town, seven

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, King, daughter, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3967): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 reigned	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reigned	nsubj
13	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 town	acl:relcl
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 serious	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 serious	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 serious	advmod
18	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 King	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 solemn	cc
20	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 serious	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 manage	mark
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 manage	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 manage	aux
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 manage	advmod
26	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 serious	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 manage	xcomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 make	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	girls = girl		a town	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	reign	past	a King					tree rules
3	is	past	daughter				serious property	tree rules
4	be		daughter not said here					tree rules
5	manage	could	no one			ever		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	make	to-infinitive	no one not said here	seven				tree rules
7	laugh	infinitive	seven not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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