The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 64

However, the king was much too anxious to see his daughter married to listen to any excuses, and he declared that a dress must be put together somehow for the bride to wear.

Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: be, see, marry, listen, declare, put together · To what, where: dress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, daughter), 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	However	however	ADV	_	8 anxious	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anxious	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anxious	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	8 anxious	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 anxious	advmod
8	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 anxious	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 married	nsubj
13	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 listen	mark
15	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 married	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 excuses	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 excuses	det
18	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 listen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 declared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 declared	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 declared	nsubj
22	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anxious	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 put	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dress	det
25	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	nsubj:pass
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 put	aux:pass
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 declared	advcl
29	together	together	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
30	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 bride	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bride	det
33	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wear	mark
35	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 put	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		anxious, however property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	marry	past	king's daughter			tree rules
4	listen	to-infinitive	king's daughter not said here		to any excuses	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to excuse=Theme
5	declare speech: other	past	king			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	put together	must · passive		a dress	for the bride; somehow, together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
7	wear	to-infinitive				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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 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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