The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 84

They both wanted to marry the King’s daughter, for she had proclaimed that she would have for her husband the man who knew best how to choose his words.

Who acts: sons, squire, man · What happens: want, marry, proclaim, have, know, choose · To what, where: daughter, man, best, words

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, squire, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	both	both	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proclaimed	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 proclaimed	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proclaimed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 proclaimed	aux
14	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 wanted	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 proclaimed	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 husband	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 man	acl:relcl
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 knew	obj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 choose	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 choose	mark
29	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 best	acl:relcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 words	nmod:poss
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 choose	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	sons = son		both property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	the King's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	proclaim	past · perfect	squire			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	have	would	squire	the man	for squire's husband	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	know	past	the man	best		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus
6	choose	to-infinitive		man's words		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	word		man			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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