The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 108

At the end of a year of mourning, the young king let it be known that he intended to marry, and commanded all the maidens in the kingdom to come to a feast, so that he might choose a wife from among them.

Who acts: young king, king · What happens: let, know, intend, marry, command, come · To what, where: end, mourning, maidens, kingdom, feast, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young king, 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	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mourning	case
8	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 year	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	nsubj
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 known	nsubj:pass
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 known	aux:pass
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 let	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 intended	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 intended	nsubj
19	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 known	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 marry	mark
21	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 intended	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 commanded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 commanded	cc
24	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 let	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 maidens	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maidens	det
27	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 commanded	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 kingdom	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kingdom	det
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 maidens	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 come	mark
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 commanded	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 feast	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 feast	det
35	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 choose	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 choose	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 choose	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 choose	aux
41	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 wife	det
43	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 choose	obj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 them	case
45	among	among	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 choose	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the young king			at the end of a year of mourning		tree rules
2	know	infinitive · passive		mourning				tree rules
3	intend	past	king					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	command	past	the young king not said here	all maidens	the kingdom			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme in kingdom=Eventuality
6	come	to-infinitive	the young king not said here		a feast			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location
7	choose	might	king	a wife			from maidens = maiden	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from they=Source

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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