The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 46
So the King had decreed that whoever should succeed in making her laugh should marry her.
Who acts: King, whoever, laugh, seven · What happens: decree, succeed, make, marry, laugh · To what, where: 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 (King, whoever, laugh, seven), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 decreed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 decreed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decreed | aux |
| 5 | decreed | decree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 succeed | mark |
| 7 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 succeed | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 succeed | aux |
| 9 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decreed | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 making | mark |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 succeed | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marry | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 marry | aux |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 making | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decree | past · perfect | the King | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | succeed | should | whoever | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | whoever not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | should | seven's laugh | seven | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | laugh | seven | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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