English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 62
So the king promised that if any lady could wake him up she should marry him.
Who acts: king, lady · What happens: promise, wake up, marry · To what, where: giant
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lady), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wake | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 wake | mark |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wake | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wake | aux |
| 10 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wake | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 wake | compound:prt |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 marry | aux |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wake | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the king | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wake up | could | any lady | giant | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | marry | should | lady | giant | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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