The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 5
Next he shut up his daughter inside, and then sent heralds all over the world to make known that he who should find the king’s daughter should have her to wife.
Who acts: eldest, daughter · What happens: shut up, send, make, know, find, have · To what, where: daughter, heralds, world, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, daughter), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 shut | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obj |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 shut | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sent | advmod |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 12 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 world | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heralds | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | advcl |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 make | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 known | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 find | ccomp |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 have | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 wife | mark |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past | eldest = eld | eldest's daughter | inside, next property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | send | past | eldest = eld not said here | heralds | the world | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herald=Theme | ||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | eldest = eld not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | eldest = eld not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find | should | eldest = eld | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | should | the king's daughter | wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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