The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 11

In process of time the lords and knights of the kingdom counselled the King (as he was young) to live no longer as he had done, but to take a wife; which counsel prevailing, they chose him a rich and beautiful princess to be his consort—a neighbouring King’s daughter, of whom he was very fond.

Who acts: lords, husband, counsel · What happens: counsell, be, live, do, take, prevail · To what, where: King, process, wife, rich princess, husband, consort

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, husband, counsel), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 process	case
2	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 counselled	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 process	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lords	det
6	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 counselled	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knights	cc
8	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lords	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knights	nmod
12	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 counselled	obj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 young	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 young	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 young	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 young	cop
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 King	amod
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 young	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 live	mark
22	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 counselled	xcomp
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 live	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 done	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 live	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 take	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 counselled	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wife	det
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 prevailing	punct
36	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	37 counsel	det
37	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 prevailing	nsubj
38	prevailing	prevail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 counselled	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chose	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 chose	nsubj
41	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 prevailing	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 chose	obj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 princess	det
44	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 princess	amod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 beautiful	cc
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 rich	conj
47	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 chose	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	51 consort	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 consort	cop
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 consort	nmod:poss
51	consort	consort	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 princess	nmod
52	—	-	PUNCT	_	57 daughter	punct
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 daughter	det
54	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 daughter	amod
55	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 daughter	nmod:poss
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 King	case
57	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 consort	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 fond	punct
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 whom	case
60	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 fond	obl
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 fond	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 fond	cop
63	very	very	ADV	_	64 fond	advmod
64	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 daughter	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 counselled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	counsell	past	the lords and knights of the kingdom	the King		process of time		tree rules
2	is	past	husband				young property	tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	the lords and knights of the kingdom not said here				long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	husband					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	to-infinitive			a wife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
6	prevail	gerund	which counsel					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	choose	past	lords = lord	a rich princess	husband			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary princess=Theme
8	is a	to-infinitive		husband's consort and King's neighbouring daughter				tree rules
9	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
10	is	past	husband				of King's neighbouring daughter; fond property	tree rules
11	process			time				nom process «act transitive»: of=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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