The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 125

They thought that a lindorm would be quite well satisfied with anyone that they might give him, and so they would get some slave-woman to marry the monster.

Who acts: lindorm · What happens: think, be, give, get, marry · To what, where: king, slave woman, monster

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 (lindorm), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 satisfied	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lindorm	det
5	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 satisfied	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 satisfied	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 satisfied	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 satisfied	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 satisfied	advmod
10	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 satisfied	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 give	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 anyone	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 woman	det
25	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 woman	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 slave	punct
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 marry	mark
29	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 monster	det
31	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 marry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	lindorm				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	would	a lindorm			with anyone; satisfied, well property	tree rules
3	give	might	lindorm		king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	get	would	lindorm	some slave woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	marry	to-infinitive	lindorm not said here	the monster			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=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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