The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 243

So he took his golden crown from off his head and put it on hers, asking her her name, and if she would be his wife, and then she would be Queen of all the flowers.

Who acts: man, THUMBELINA · What happens: take, put, ask, be, crown, name · To what, where: golden crown, head, crown, name, wife, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, THUMBELINA), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crown	nmod:poss
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crown	amod
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 head	case
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 hers	case
15	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asking	punct
17	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 put	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 name	nmod:poss
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 name	nmod:poss
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wife	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wife	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 wife	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wife	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wife	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 wife	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Queen	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Queen	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 Queen	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 Queen	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 Queen	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 Queen	cop
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 flowers	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 flowers	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flowers	det
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Queen	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	man's golden crown	man's head			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from head=Initial_Location
2	put	infinitive	man not said here	crown			on THUMBELINA	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on her=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	man not said here	THUMBELINA's name				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	would	THUMBELINA	man's wife				tree rules
5	is a	would	THUMBELINA	Queen		then	of all flowers	tree rules
6	crown		man					nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	name		THUMBELINA					nom name «communication 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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