The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 10
After the Prince had been proclaimed King, and the usual time of mourning had elapsed, he felt that he must keep the promise he had made to his father, so he sent to ask for the hand of the King’s daughter, which was granted to him at once.
Who acts: King · What happens: proclaim, elapse, feel, keep, make, send · To what, where: Prince, usual time, promise, daughter, King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 proclaimed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proclaimed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 6 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 felt | advcl |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 elapsed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 elapsed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mourning | case |
| 14 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 elapsed | aux |
| 16 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 proclaimed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proclaimed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 keep | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 keep | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 keep | aux |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 felt | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 promise | det |
| 25 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 promise | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 father | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sent | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 sent | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sent | nsubj |
| 35 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 ask | mark |
| 37 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sent | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hand | det |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ask | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 daughter | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 King | det |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 King | case |
| 45 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hand | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 granted | punct |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 granted | aux:pass |
| 49 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 granted | obl |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 once | case |
| 53 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 49 granted | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past · perfect · passive | the Prince | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme king=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | elapse | past · perfect · passive | the usual time of mourning | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | King | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | keep | must | King | the promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | King | the promise not said here | to King's father | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | |||
| 6 | send | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | King not said here | for the hand of the King's daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | grant | past · passive | the King's daughter | King | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
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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