The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 150
The King announced publicly that he would give his daughter in marriage, as well as a large part of his kingdom, to whosoever should free the country from the monster.
Who acts: King, wisdom · What happens: announce, give · To what, where: daughter, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wisdom), 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 announced | nsubj |
| 3 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | publicly | publicly | ADV | _ | 3 announced | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 announced | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 part | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 part | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 part | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 part | amod |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 free | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 free | case |
| 25 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 free | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 free | aux |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 announced | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 country | det |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 free | nsubj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 monster | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 monster | det |
| 32 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 free | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the King | publicly property | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | would | wisdom | wisdom's daughter | marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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