The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 7
He came to the King and asked his daughter’s hand, which he readily granted him, but only on the condition that he should remain there as long as he could, for the King himself was not strong and not very able to govern his kingdom.
Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: come, ask, grant, remain, not be, govern · To what, where: condition, hand, kingdom
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 (Sigurd), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 granted | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 granted | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 granted | nsubj |
| 15 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 16 granted | advmod |
| 16 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hand | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 granted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 condition | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 condition | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 condition | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 condition | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 condition | det |
| 23 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 remain | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 remain | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 remain | aux |
| 27 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 condition | acl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 remain | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 long | advmod |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 remain | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 could | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 could | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 long | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 strong | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 King | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 strong | obl |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 strong | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 strong | cop |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 strong | advmod |
| 41 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 remain | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 able | cc |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 able | advmod |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 able | advmod |
| 45 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 strong | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 govern | mark |
| 47 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 able | xcomp |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 49 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 govern | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Sigurd | the condition | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Sigurd not said here | Sigurd's daughter's hand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | grant | past | Sigurd | Sigurd's daughter's hand | readily property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent which=Goal he=Theme | |||
| 4 | remain | should | Sigurd | the condition not said here | there | long property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme condition=Attribute | ||
| 5 | not is | past | Sigurd | for the King; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not be | Sigurd not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | govern | to-infinitive | Sigurd not said here | Sigurd's kingdom | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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