The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 37
The King was so charmed by the Snow-daughter, that he asked her to be his wife.
Who acts: Snow daughter, King · What happens: charm, ask, be · To what, where: King, girl, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow daughter, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 charmed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 charmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 charmed | advmod |
| 5 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 8 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Snow | punct |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charmed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 asked | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 charmed | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wife | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wife | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 charmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · passive | the Snow daughter | the King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | King's wife | tree rules |
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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