The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 25

Now the Six came to a town in which the King had proclaimed that whoever should run with his daughter in a race, and win, should become her husband; but if he lost, he must lose his head.

Who acts: Six, King, whoever · What happens: come, proclaim, run, win, become, lose · To what, where: town, race, husband, head

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six, King, whoever), 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	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Six	det
3	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 proclaimed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 proclaimed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 proclaimed	aux
13	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 town	acl:relcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 run	mark
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 run	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 run	aux
17	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 proclaimed	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 daughter	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 race	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 race	det
23	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 win	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 win	cc
26	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 win	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 husband	nmod:poss
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	xcomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 lose	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 lose	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 lost	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lost	nsubj
36	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lose	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lost	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lose	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 lose	aux
40	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lose	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Six		a town	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	proclaim	past · perfect	the King		a town			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	run	should	whoever		a race		with King's daughter	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory
4	win	present	the Six not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	become	should	the Six not said here	runner's husband				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	King					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lose	must	King	King's head				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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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