The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 4

He had only one child, and that was a daughter, so he foresaw that she must be provided with a husband who would be fit to be king after him.

Who acts: king, that, husband · What happens: have, be, foresee, provide · To what, where: one child, daughter, child, king

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that, husband), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 child	nummod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 daughter	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 daughter	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 daughter	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 daughter	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 foresaw	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 foresaw	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 foresaw	nsubj
15	foresaw	foresee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 provided	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 provided	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 provided	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 provided	aux:pass
20	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 foresaw	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 husband	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 husband	det
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 provided	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fit	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fit	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 fit	cop
27	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 husband	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	30 king	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 king	cop
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fit	advcl
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 king	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	king	one child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is a	past	that	a daughter			tree rules
3	foresee	past	king				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	provide	must · passive		child		with a husband	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with husband=Theme
5	is	would	a husband			fit property	tree rules
6	is a	to-infinitive	a husband not said here	king	after king		tree rules

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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