The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 42

This he did, and then his parents had it proclaimed over the whole country that he was their eldest son, and along with his spouse should inherit the country and kingdom after them.

Who acts: This, king · What happens: do, proclaim, be, inherit · To what, where: whole country, eldest son, country

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, king), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proclaimed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 proclaimed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 had	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 proclaimed	aux
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obj
11	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 did	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proclaimed	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 son	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 son	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 son	cop
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 son	amod
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 country	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 inherit	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 inherit	cc
24	along	along	ADP	_	27 spouse	case
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 spouse	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 spouse	nmod:poss
27	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inherit	obl
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 inherit	aux
29	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 proclaimed	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 country	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inherit	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kingdom	cc
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 country	conj
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 inherit	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	This					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	proclaim	past · perfect	This not said here		the whole country			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	king	parents's eldest son				tree rules
4	inherit	should	This not said here	the country and kingdom		after parents = parent	along king's spouse	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme

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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