The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 17

The old woman went accordingly, and laid the matter before the King, who laughed a little at the notion of his daughter marrying a crab, but did not decline the proposal altogether, because he was a prudent monarch, and knew that the Crab was likely to be a prince in disguise.

Who acts: old woman, King, daughter, Crab · What happens: go, lay, laugh, marry, not decline, be · To what, where: matter, little, notion, crab, proposal, prudent monarch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, King, daughter, Crab), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laid	cc
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laughed	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 laughed	nsubj
16	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 King	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 laughed	obl:unmarked
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 notion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 notion	det
21	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laughed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 notion	nmod
25	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 daughter	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crab	det
27	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marrying	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 decline	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 decline	cc
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 decline	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 decline	advmod
32	decline	decline	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 proposal	det
34	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 decline	obj
35	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	32 decline	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 monarch	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 monarch	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 monarch	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 monarch	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 monarch	det
41	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 monarch	amod
42	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 decline	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 knew	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 knew	cc
45	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 likely	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Crab	det
48	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 likely	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 likely	cop
50	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 knew	ccomp
51	to	to	PART	_	54 prince	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 prince	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 prince	det
54	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 likely	xcomp
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 disguise	case
56	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 prince	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman				accordingly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	the old woman not said here	the matter		before the King		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme before king=Destination
3	laugh	past	the King	a little	the notion of King's daughter			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	marry	gerund	King's daughter not said here	a crab				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Patient
5	not decline	past · do-support		the proposal			altogether property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme
6	is a	past	King	a prudent monarch				tree rules
7	know	past						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	the Crab				likely property	tree rules
9	is a	to-infinitive	the Crab not said here	a prince	disguise			tree rules

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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