The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 2

And whenever he subdued a fresh kingdom, he only granted peace on condition that the king should deliver him one of his sons for ten years’ service.

Who acts: he, king, ten years · What happens: subdue, grant, deliver, service · To what, where: fresh kingdom, peace, condition, one, him

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, king, ten years), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 granted	cc
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 subdued	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 subdued	nsubj
4	subdued	subdue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 granted	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kingdom	det
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kingdom	amod
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 subdued	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 subdued	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 granted	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 granted	advmod
11	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 granted	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 condition	case
14	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 granted	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 deliver	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deliver	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 deliver	aux
19	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 granted	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 deliver	obj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 deliver	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sons	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sons	nmod:poss
24	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 service	case
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 years	nummod
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 service	nmod:poss
28	’	's	PART	_	27 years	case
29	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sons	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	subdue	past	he	a fresh kingdom			whenever property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient
2	grant	past	he	peace		condition		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
3	deliver	should	the king	one of king's sons for ten years's service	him = he			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary one=Patient
4	service		ten years					nom service «act 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 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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