The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 21

Soon after he died the king set forth a proclamation through the whole country that whoever could build a ship that should float both on land and sea should have his daughter to wife.

Who acts: man, king, whole country, ship · What happens: die, set, build, float, have · To what, where: proclamation, whole country, ship, both, land, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, king, whole country, ship), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 died	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 died	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 king	acl
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 set	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 proclamation	det
10	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 country	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 country	amod
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 build	nsubj
16	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 build	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 build	aux
18	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 country	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ship	det
20	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 build	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 float	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 float	aux
23	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ship	acl:relcl
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 float	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 land	case
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 float	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sea	cc
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 land	conj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 died	ccomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wife	mark
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	man			soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	set	participle	the king not said here	a proclamation	the whole country	forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent proclamation=Theme through country=Destination
3	build	could	the whole country	a ship			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
4	float	should	a ship	both	land and sea		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent both=Theme on land=Trajectory
5	have	should	the king	man's daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 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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