The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 44
Then the King said to her, ‘I will appoint a tournament in your honour, and I will invite all the princes in the world to it, and if any one of them pleases you, you shall marry him.’
Who acts: King, I, one, you, your · What happens: say, appoint, invite, please, marry, honour · To what, where: daughter, tournament, honour, princes, world, you · 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 (King, I, one, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 appoint | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 appoint | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 appoint | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 appoint | aux |
| 11 | appoint | appoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tournament | det |
| 13 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appoint | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 honour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appoint | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 invite | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 invite | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 invite | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 invite | aux |
| 21 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 appoint | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 princes | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princes | det |
| 24 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 invite | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 princes | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 invite | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 marry | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 marry | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 pleases | mark |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pleases | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 one | nmod |
| 37 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 marry | advcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 pleases | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pleases | punct |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 marry | nsubj |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 marry | aux |
| 42 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 appoint | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 marry | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | daughter | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | appoint | future | I | a tournament | your honour | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tournament=Theme | |||
| 3 | invite | future | I | all princes | world | the world | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||
| 4 | please a condition, not said to happen | present | any one of woman | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | marry | shall | you | King | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | honour | your | nom honour «state 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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