The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 41

At last she said to the King that he ought to ask his daughter whether she would not like to have another husband instead of the Crab?

Who acts: mother, King · What happens: say, ask, not like, have · To what, where: King, last, daughter, husband · 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 (mother, King), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 ask	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 ask	mark
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obj
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 like	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 like	advmod
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ask	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 husband	det
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 Crab	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Crab	det
27	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother		the King	last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	ought	King		King's daughter			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not like not said to happen	would	mother					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	another husband			instead the Crab	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient

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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