The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 295
The King then sent round a herald to proclaim that he would give the hand of the Princess to anyone who would rid her of her strange ornaments.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, proclaim, give, rid · To what, where: hand, anyone, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 herald | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 herald | det |
| 7 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 proclaim | mark |
| 9 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 proclaim | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 anyone | case |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 give | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 rid | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 rid | aux |
| 23 | rid | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rid | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ornaments | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ornaments | nmod:poss |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ornaments | amod |
| 28 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | then | round a herald | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | proclaim | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | would | King | the hand of the Princess | anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 4 | rid | would | Princess | of Princess's strange ornaments | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Source of ornament=Theme |
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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