The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 5

The King answered that in a certain country there was a King who had a beautiful daughter, and he thought it would be most desirable if Sigurd could get her.

Who acts: King, Sigurd, country · What happens: answer, be, have, think, get · To what, where: certain country, beautiful daughter, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, Sigurd, country), 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	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	obl
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 King	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 daughter	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 daughter	amod
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 desirable	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 desirable	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 desirable	cop
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 desirable	advmod
26	desirable	desirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thought	ccomp
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 get	mark
28	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 get	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 desirable	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the King				tree rules
2	be	past	a King		a certain country; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
3	have	past	a King	a beautiful daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	Sigurd				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	country			desirable property	tree rules
6	get a condition, not said to happen	could	Sigurd	wife			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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