The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 34

But in cutting it he found the ring of the Princess, and declared to his parents that he would marry the girl whom that ring fitted.

Who acts: son · What happens: cut, find, declare, marry, fit · To what, where: loaf, ring, parents, girl

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	in	in	SCONJ	_	3 cutting	mark
3	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 found	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cutting	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 declared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 declared	cc
14	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 parents	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parents	nmod:poss
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 declared	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 marry	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 marry	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 marry	aux
21	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 declared	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marry	obj
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fitted	obj
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 fitted	nsubj:pass
26	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fitted	nsubj
27	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 girl	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cut	gerund	son not said here	loaf		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	find	past	son	the ring of the Princess		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
3	declare speech: other	past	son not said here		son's parents	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient
4	marry	would	son	the girl		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
5	fit	participle · passive			the girl	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme whom=Destination

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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