The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 86

The Queen had offered her hand to all the neighbouring Princes, but they always answered that they would marry Fiordelisa with pleasure, but not Turritella on any account.

Who acts: Queen, Princes · What happens: offer, neighbour, answer, marry · To what, where: hand, neighbouring Princes, account, Fiordelisa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Princes), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	aux
4	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 Princes	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Princes	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princes	det
10	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 Princes	amod
11	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 offered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 answered	advmod
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 marry	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	ccomp
21	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 pleasure	case
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Turritella	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 Turritella	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 Turritella	advmod
27	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 account	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 account	det
30	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past · perfect	the Queen	Queen's hand	all neighbouring Princes	any account	Turritella obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to prince=Goal
2	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	Princes = prince				always property	tree rules
4	marry	would	Princes = prince	Fiordelisa			with pleasure	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiordelisa=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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