The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 33

Then he asked his newly made son-in-law what dowry he would require with his bride.

Who acts: man, dowry · What happens: ask, make, require · To what, where: made law · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dowry), 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	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 law	nmod:poss
5	newly	newly	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 law	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 law	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 require	obj
13	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 require	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 require	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 require	aux
16	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bride	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bride	nmod:poss
19	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 require	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man	man's made law	then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent law=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	participle				newly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	require	would	dowry			with man's bride	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition

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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