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The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 64

For the third time Dullhead asked for his bride, but again the King tried to make some evasion, and demanded a ship ‘which could sail on land or water!

Who acts: Dullhead, King · What happens: ask, try, make, demand, sail · To what, where: evasion, ship, land

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 (Dullhead, 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

casedetamodoblnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctccadvmoddetnsubjconjmarkxcompdetobjpunctccconjdetobjpunctnsubjauxadvclcaseoblccconjpunctrootForADPtheDETthirdADJtimeNOUNDullheadPROPNaskedVERBforADPhisPRONbrideNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJagainADVtheDETKingPROPNtriedVERBtoPARTmakeVERBsomeDETevasionNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdemandedVERBaDETshipNOUN‘PUNCTwhichPRONcouldAUXsailVERBonADPlandNOUNorCCONJwaterNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_4 timecase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 timedet
3thirdthirdADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord4 timeamod
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing6 askedobl
5DullheadDullheadPROPNNumber=Sing6 askednsubj
6askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7forforADP_9 bridecase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 bridenmod:poss
9bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing6 askedobl
10,,PUNCT_15 triedpunct
11butbutCCONJ_15 triedcc
12againagainADV_15 triedadvmod
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Kingdet
14KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing15 triednsubj
15triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 askedconj
16totoPART_17 makemark
17makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf15 triedxcomp
18somesomeDETPronType=Ind19 evasiondet
19evasionevasionNOUNNumber=Sing17 makeobj
20,,PUNCT_22 demandedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 demandedcc
22demandeddemandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 askedconj
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 shipdet
24shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing22 demandedobj
25‘'PUNCT_28 sailpunct
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 sailnsubj
27couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 sailaux
28sailsailVERBVerbForm=Inf22 demandedadvcl
29ononADP_30 landcase
30landlandNOUNNumber=Sing28 sailobl
31ororCCONJ_32 watercc
32waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing30 landconj
33!!PUNCT_6 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastDullheadtimefor Dullhead's bridevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2trypastthe Kingagainvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3make not said to happento-infinitivethe King not said heresome evasionvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset evasion=Product
4demand speech: requestpastDullhead not said herea shipvn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=Precondition
5sailcouldland or watervn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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