The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 104

Then the youth told him of the piece of good luck that had befallen him, and asked him for the hand of his beautiful daughter.

Who acts: youth, good luck · What happens: tell, befall, ask · To what, where: BOY · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, good luck), 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 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 piece	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 piece	det
8	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 luck	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 luck	amod
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 piece	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 befallen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 befallen	aux
14	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 luck	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 befallen	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 daughter	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 daughter	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hand	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youth		BOY	then	of the piece of good luck	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	befall	past · perfect	good luck	BOY				tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	the youth not said here		BOY		for the hand of BOY's beautiful daughter	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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