The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 22

Before long the King went out to war, and no sooner was he away than the Queen came to talk with Hermod, and said that she wanted him to marry her daughter.

Who acts: maid, Queen · What happens: long, go out, be, come, talk, say · To what, where: King, maid, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, Queen), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 long	mark
2	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 long	obj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 war	case
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 away	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 away	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 sooner	det
12	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 away	advmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 away	cop
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 away	nsubj
15	away	away	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 away	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 talk	mark
21	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 came	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 Hermod	case
23	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 talk	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wanted	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 marry	mark
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wanted	xcomp
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 daughter	nmod:poss
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 marry	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	gerund		the King		tree rules
2	go out	past			to war; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	maid		away, soon property	tree rules
4	come	past	the Queen			tree rules
5	talk	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here		with Hermod	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hermod=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	want	past	Queen	maid		tree rules
8	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	maid not said here	Queen's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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