The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 41

The King’s son recognized the charming damsel of whom he had once caught a glimpse, and, flinging himself at her feet, asked if she would marry him.

Who acts: son, girl · What happens: recognize, catch, fling, ask, marry · To what, where: charming damsel, son, feet

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, girl), 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 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognized	nsubj
5	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 damsel	det
7	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 damsel	amod
8	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognized	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 damsel	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caught	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 caught	aux
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 caught	advmod
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 whom	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 glimpse	det
16	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flinging	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flinging	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flinging	punct
20	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 recognized	advcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 flinging	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flinging	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recognized	conj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 marry	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 marry	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 marry	aux
30	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asked	ccomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 marry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	the King's son	the charming damsel			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer damsel=Stimulus
2	catch	past · perfect · passive		son		once property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary glimpse=Theme
3	fling	gerund	the King's son not said here	son	girl's feet		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
4	ask speech: ask	past	the King's son not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry a condition, not said to happen	would	girl	son			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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