The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 6

When he came she told him that she had no long time to live, and therefore wished to ask one thing of him, which was, that if he married another wife he should promise to take no other one than the Queen of Hetland the Good.

Who acts: Hermod, Queen · What happens: come, tell, have, live, wish, ask · To what, where: Hermod, one thing, wife, other one · 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 (Hermod, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	advcl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 live	mark
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wished	cc
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	18 wished	advmod
18	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ask	mark
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	xcomp
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 thing	nummod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thing	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 promise	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 promise	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 married	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 married	nsubj
32	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 promise	advcl
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 wife	det
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 married	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 promise	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 promise	aux
37	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 promise	xcomp
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 one	det
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 one	amod
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
43	than	than	ADP	_	45 Queen	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Queen	det
45	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 take	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Hetland	case
47	Hetland	Hetland	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Queen	nmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Good	det
49	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 take	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Hermod					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Queen		Hermod			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	Queen			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	live	to-infinitive	Queen not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish	participle	Queen not said here				therefore property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	one thing of Hermod				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
7	marry a condition, not said to happen	past	Hermod	another wife				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
8	promise speech: promise	should	Hermod					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hermod not said here	no other one			than the Queen of Hetland	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument one=Theme good=Destination

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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