Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 49

She caused every prince who came a-wooing--and her suitors were countless--to eat the half of a double almond, and she ate its twin half.

Who acts: Princess, prince, suitors · What happens: cause, come, woo, be, eat · To what, where: prince, half, twin half

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, prince, suitors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prince	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wooing	det
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 a	punct
9	wooing	woo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 countless	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 countless	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 suitors	nmod:poss
13	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 countless	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 countless	cop
15	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caused	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 half	det
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 eat	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 almond	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 almond	det
23	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 almond	amod
24	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 half	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ate	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ate	nsubj
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 half	nmod:poss
30	twin	twin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 half	amod
31	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 ate	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past	Princess	every prince		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition prince=Patient
2	come	past	every prince			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	woo	gerund	every prince not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Princess's suitors		countless property	tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive		the half of a double almond		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
6	eat	past	Princess	half's twin half		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 49