The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 4

Fifty years ago there lived a king who was very anxious to get married; but, as he was quite determined that his wife should be as beautiful as the sun, the thing was not so easy as it seemed, for no maiden came up to his standard.

Who acts: king, wife, thing, it, maiden · What happens: live, be, marry, not be, seem, come up · To what, where: king, standard

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife, thing, it), 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	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ago	obl:unmarked
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 anxious	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 anxious	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 anxious	advmod
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 married	mark
13	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 anxious	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 determined	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 determined	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 determined	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 determined	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 determined	cop
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 determined	advmod
22	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 beautiful	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beautiful	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 beautiful	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 beautiful	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 beautiful	advmod
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 determined	ccomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 sun	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beautiful	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 easy	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thing	det
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 easy	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 easy	cop
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 easy	advmod
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 easy	advmod
39	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 determined	conj
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 seemed	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seemed	nsubj
42	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 easy	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 came	mark
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 maiden	det
46	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seemed	conj
48	up	up	ADV	_	47 came	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 standard	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 standard	nmod:poss
51	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a king	there	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	is	past	a king			anxious property	tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive · passive	a king not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
4	is	past	King			determined property	tree rules
5	is	should	King's wife			as the sun; beautiful property	tree rules
6	not is	past	the thing			easy property	tree rules
7	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	come up	past	no maiden		King's standard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to standard=Initial_Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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