The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 78

Then the King remembered his royal oath; but he made up his mind that he would never consent to let the Princess marry a poor peasant.

Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: remember, make up, not consent, let, marry, mind · To what, where: royal oath, mind, Princess, poor peasant

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 (King, Princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 remembered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 oath	nmod:poss
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oath	amod
7	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mind	nmod:poss
14	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 consent	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 consent	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 consent	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 consent	advmod
19	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 let	mark
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 consent	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obj
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 peasant	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 peasant	amod
27	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	remember	past	the King	King's royal oath	then	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
2	make up	past	King	King's mind		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	not consent	would	King			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	let	to-infinitive	King not said here	the Princess		tree rules
5	marry	infinitive	the Princess not said here	a poor peasant		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Patient
6	mind		King			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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