The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 78

But one day it suddenly came into his mind that he would like to get married, and, moreover, that he would choose a very grand wife--a King’s daughter, in short.

Who acts: air, Martin · What happens: come, like, marry, choose, mind · To what, where: mind, grand wife

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, Martin), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 mind	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mind	nmod:poss
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 like	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 married	mark
15	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 married	aux:pass
16	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 like	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 moreover	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 moreover	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 moreover	punct
20	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 choose	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 choose	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 choose	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 choose	aux
25	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wife	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 grand	advmod
28	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wife	amod
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 choose	obj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 daughter	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 daughter	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 King	case
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wife	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 short	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 short	case
37	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 choose	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	air		Martin's mind	day	moreover, suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location
2	like	would	Martin					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Martin not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
4	choose	would	Martin	a grand wife and a King's daughter				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
5	mind		Martin					nom mind «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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