The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 124

Now the young king had a great dislike to long ceremonies, so he proposed that his second interview with the princess should take place in the garden.

Who acts: young king, king, second interview · What happens: have, propose, take, interview · To what, where: great dislike, place, garden

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young king, king, second interview), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dislike	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dislike	amod
8	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ceremonies	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ceremonies	amod
11	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dislike	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proposed	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 proposed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proposed	nsubj
15	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 take	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 interview	nmod:poss
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 interview	amod
19	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	nsubj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 princess	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 interview	nmod
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proposed	ccomp
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 garden	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 garden	det
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the young king	a great dislike		now	to long ceremonies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dislike=Patient
2	propose	past	king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	should	king's second interview with the princess	place	the garden			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in garden=Location
4	interview		king				with the princess	nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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