The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 63

Henceforth the King’s one idea was to marry the young man to a Princess who was the heiress to a neighbouring kingdom, and, besides that, was as lovely as the day.

Who acts: one idea, Princess, that · What happens: be, neighbour · To what, where: heiress

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one idea, Princess, that), 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	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	6 idea	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 idea	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 idea	nummod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Princess	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 heiress	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heiress	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heiress	det
19	heiress	heiress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Princess	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 kingdom	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kingdom	det
22	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 kingdom	amod
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heiress	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lovely	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lovely	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 that	punct
27	besides	besides	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 lovely	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 that	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lovely	cop
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 lovely	advmod
32	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marry	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lovely	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King's one idea			marry property	tree rules
2	is a	past	a Princess and the heiress	the heiress		to a neighbouring kingdom	tree rules
3	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
4	is	past	that		day	lovely property	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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