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The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 42

However, they could not retract the bargain, and the youngest Prince was desired to tell what demand he had on the Queen, as he had won his game.

Who acts: Princes, bargain · What happens: not retract, desire, tell, have, win · To what, where: bargain, youngest Prince, demand, game · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Princes, bargain), 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

advmodpunctnsubjauxadvmoddetobjpunctccdetamodnsubj:passaux:passparataxismarkxcompdetobjnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctmarknsubjauxccompnmod:possobjpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCTtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTretractVERBtheDETbargainNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETyoungestADJPrincePROPNwasAUXdesiredVERBtoPARTtellVERBwhatDETdemandNOUNhePRONhadVERBonADPtheDETQueenPROPN,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONhadAUXwonVERBhisPRONgameNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_6 retractadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 retractnsubj
4couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin6 retractaux
5notnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 retractadvmod
6retractretractVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 bargaindet
8bargainbargainNOUNNumber=Sing6 retractobj
9,,PUNCT_15 desiredpunct
10andandCCONJ_15 desiredcc
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Princedet
12youngestyoungADJDegree=Sup13 Princeamod
13PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing15 desirednsubj:pass
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 desiredaux:pass
15desireddesireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 retractparataxis
16totoPART_17 tellmark
17telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf15 desiredxcomp
18whatwhatDETPronType=Int19 demanddet
19demanddemandNOUNNumber=Sing17 tellobj
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 hadnsubj
21hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 demandacl:relcl
22ononADP_24 Queencase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Queendet
24QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing21 hadobl
25,,PUNCT_29 wonpunct
26asasSCONJ_29 wonmark
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wonnsubj
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 wonaux
29wonwinVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part17 tellccomp
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 gamenmod:poss
31gamegameNOUNNumber=Sing29 wonobj
32..PUNCT_6 retractpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not retractcouldPrinces = princethe bargainhowever propertyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme
2desirepast · passivethe youngest Princetree rules
3tell speech: assert not said to happento-infinitivewhat demandvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent demand=Recipient clause=Topic
4havepastbargainwhat demand not said hereon the Queenvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Patient
5winpast · perfectbargainbargain's gamevn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

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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