The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 29
The Queen assured him of her eternal gratitude, and promised, should he succeed, to give him her daughter in marriage, together with all the estates she herself owned.
Who acts: Queen, King · What happens: assure, promise, succeed, give, own · To what, where: King, daughter, marriage, estates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (Queen, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | nsubj |
| 3 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assured | iobj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gratitude | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gratitude | amod |
| 8 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promised | cc |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assured | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeed | punct |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 succeed | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 succeed | nsubj |
| 15 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 succeed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 marriage | case |
| 23 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 together | punct |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 succeed | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 estates | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 estates | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 estates | det |
| 29 | estates | estate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 succeed | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 owned | nsubj |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 she | conj |
| 32 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 estates | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | the Queen | King | of Queen's eternal gratitude | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of gratitude=Topic | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Queen not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | succeed | should | King | with all estates; together property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | King not said here | Queen's daughter | King | marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||
| 5 | own | past | Queen | all estates not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot estate=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 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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