The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 3

Many of the young braves sought her in marriage, but she would listen to one only--a handsome chief, who had taken her fancy some years before.

Who acts: Many young braves, maiden, handsome chief · What happens: seek, listen, take, fancy · To what, where: maiden, marriage, handsome chief, one, fancy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many young braves, maiden, handsome chief), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 braves	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 braves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 braves	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 braves	amod
5	braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sought	nsubj
6	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sought	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 marriage	case
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listen	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sought	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 listen	obl
17	only	only	ADV	_	14 listen	advmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 chief	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chief	det
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chief	amod
21	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taken	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 taken	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 chief	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fancy	nmod:poss
27	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taken	obj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 years	det
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 taken	obl:unmarked
30	before	before	ADV	_	25 taken	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	the Many young braves	maiden		marriage			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in marriage=Location
2	listen	would	maiden	a handsome chief	one				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to one=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	a handsome chief	maiden's fancy			year	before property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme
4	fancy		maiden						nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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