The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 16

‘He has promised to give his daughter to whoever can make a flying ship.’

Who acts: Court, whoever · What happens: promise, give, make, fly · To what, where: daughter, flying ship

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Court, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	aux
4	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	12 make	mark
10	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 make	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ship	det
14	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 ship	amod
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	Court			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Court not said here		Court's daughter	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
3	make	can	whoever	a flying ship		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
4	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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