The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 49
At dessert the King asked Jenik’s father to give him the young man for a son-in-law.
Who acts: King · What happens: ask, give · To what, where: father, dessert, young man, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 dessert | case |
| 2 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jenik | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 law | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 law | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | Jenik's father | dessert | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young man | king | for a law | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient man=Theme for law=Asset |
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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