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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 4

Now, one day it was announced in the village that the King had issued a decree, offering his daughter, the Princess, in marriage to whoever should build a ship that could fly.

Who acts: village, whoever, ship · What happens: announce, issue, offer, build, fly · To what, where: youngest, village, King, daughter, marriage, 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 (village, whoever, ship), 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

advmodpunctnummodobl:unmarkednsubj:passaux:passcasedetoblmarkdetnsubj:passauxacl:relcldetobjpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctdetappospunctcaseoblcasensubjauxacl:relcldetobjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootNowADV,PUNCToneNUMdayNOUNitPRONwasAUXannouncedVERBinADPtheDETvillageNOUNthatSCONJtheDETKingPROPNhadAUXissuedVERBaDETdecreeNOUN,PUNCTofferingVERBhisPRONdaughterNOUN,PUNCTtheDETPrincessPROPN,PUNCTinADPmarriageNOUNtoADPwhoeverPRONshouldAUXbuildVERBaDETshipNOUNthatPRONcouldAUXflyVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem7 announcedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 daynummod
4daydayNOUNNumber=Sing7 announcedobl:unmarked
5ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 announcednsubj:pass
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 announcedaux:pass
7announcedannounceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
8ininADP_10 villagecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 villagedet
10villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing7 announcedobl
11thatthatSCONJ_15 issuedmark
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Kingdet
13KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing15 issuednsubj:pass
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 issuedaux
15issuedissueVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 villageacl:relcl
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 decreedet
17decreedecreeNOUNNumber=Sing15 issuedobj
18,,PUNCT_19 offeringpunct
19offeringofferVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 announcedconj
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 daughternmod:poss
21daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing19 offeringobj
22,,PUNCT_24 Princesspunct
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Princessdet
24PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing21 daughterappos
25,,PUNCT_27 marriagepunct
26ininADP_27 marriagecase
27marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing19 offeringobl
28totoADP_29 whoevercase
29whoeverwhoeverPRONPronType=Rel31 buildnsubj
30shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin31 buildaux
31buildbuildVERBVerbForm=Inf27 marriageacl:relcl
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 shipdet
33shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing31 buildobj
34thatthatPRONPronType=Rel36 flynsubj
35couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin36 flyaux
36flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf33 shipacl:relcl
37..PUNCT_7 announcedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1announce speech: otherpast · passiveyoungest = youngthe villagenow; dayvn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2issuepast · perfect · passivethe village not said herethe Kingvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal decree=Theme
3offergerundKing's daughtermarriagevn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
4buildshouldwhoevera shipvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
5flycoulda shipvn 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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