The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 112

Then his parents said to him that he should journey to another kingdom and seek for himself a bride, for they were beginning to grow old, and would fain see their son married. before they were laid in their grave.

Who acts: parents, king, journey, son · What happens: say, journey, seek, begin, grow, fain · To what, where: king, bride, son, parents, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, king, journey, son), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 journey	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 journey	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 journey	aux
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seek	nsubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 kingdom	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 kingdom	det
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 journey	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seek	cc
15	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 seek	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bride	det
19	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seek	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beginning	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 beginning	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beginning	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beginning	aux
24	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 seek	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 grow	mark
26	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 beginning	xcomp
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grow	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fain	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fain	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fain	aux
31	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seek	conj
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fain	xcomp
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
35	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 see	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 fain	punct
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 laid	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 laid	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 laid	aux:pass
40	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 fain	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 grave	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 grave	nmod:poss
43	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 laid	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king's parents		king		then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	journey	should	king					to another kingdom	tree rules
3	seek	infinitive	journey	a bride				for king	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bride=Location for himself=Theme
4	begin	past · progressive	parents = parent						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	grow	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fain	would	journey not said here						tree rules
7	see	infinitive	journey not said here	parents's son					tree rules
8	marry	participle	parents's son not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	lay	past · passive		parents = parent		parents's grave			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination

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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