The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 2
He possessed a kingdom which, though small, was yet large enough for him to marry on, and married he wished to be.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: possess, be, marry on, marry, wish · To what, where: kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 possessed | nsubj |
| 2 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 possessed | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 kingdom | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 large | punct |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 small | mark |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 large | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 small | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 large | cop |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 possessed | parataxis |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 marry | mark |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 marry | mark |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 large | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 marry | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 married | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 married | cc |
| 21 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 possessed | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 married | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 25 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wished | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past | Prince | a kingdom | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | yet | enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry on | to-infinitive | Prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | marry | past | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | Prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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