The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 25

‘That is all very well,’ said the King, ‘but I cannot give away my daughter until there stands in front of my palace a garden in which there are three fountains, of which the first must play gold, the second diamonds, and the third brilliants.’

Who acts: That, King, I, first · What happens: be, say, not give away, stand, play · To what, where: daughter, front, gold · 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 (That, King, I, first), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 well	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 well	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 give	advmod
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	iobj
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 stands	mark
23	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	24 stands	nmod:poss
24	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 give	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stands	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 palace	nmod:poss
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 front	nmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 garden	det
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 palace	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 are	obl
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 are	expl
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 garden	acl:relcl
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 fountains	nummod
37	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 are	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 play	punct
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 play	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 first	det
42	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	44 play	nsubj
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 play	aux
44	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 fountains	acl:relcl
45	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 play	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 diamonds	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 diamonds	det
48	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	49 diamonds	amod
49	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 gold	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 brilliants	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 brilliants	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 brilliants	det
53	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	54 brilliants	amod
54	brilliants	brilliant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	parataxis
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 brilliants	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	54 brilliants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That				all, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not give away	can	I		my daughter		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
4	stand	present	I not said here			front of my palace and a garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
5	play	must	the first	gold and the second diamonds			of three fountains	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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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