The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 44

He asked what the meaning of all the feasting and fuss was, and they told him that the King’s daughter was just going to be married to the man who had slain the terrible dragon.

Who acts: stranger, feasting, daughter, man · What happens: ask, tell, go, marry, slay, mean · To what, where: stranger, terrible dragon, feasting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, feasting, daughter, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 asked	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meaning	det
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 feasting	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 feasting	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feasting	det
9	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meaning	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fuss	cc
11	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feasting	conj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 going	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 King	case
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 going	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 going	advmod
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 told	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	28 married	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 married	aux:pass
28	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 going	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 married	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 slain	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 slain	aux
34	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 man	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dragon	det
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dragon	amod
37	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slain	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	stranger				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	feasting		stranger		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	the King's daughter				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry	to-infinitive · passive	the King's daughter not said here			to the man	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to man=Co-Patient
5	slay	past · perfect	the man	the terrible dragon			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
6	mean			all feasting and fuss			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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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