Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 19

The King and Queen, though reluctant to part with any of their children, resolved to abide by their bargain, and they consulted together as to which of the young Princes should be handed over to the Lama.

Who acts: King · What happens: resolve, abide, consult, hand over, bargain · To what, where: children, Lama

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. 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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 consulted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Queen	cc
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 part	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 part	mark
7	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 part	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 part	mark
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 King	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 any	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 part	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 children	nmod:poss
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 any	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 resolved	punct
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 children	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 abide	mark
18	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 resolved	xcomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 bargain	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bargain	nmod:poss
21	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 abide	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 consulted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 consulted	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 consulted	nsubj
25	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 consulted	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 which	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 handed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Princes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Princes	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Princes	amod
33	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 handed	obl
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 handed	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 handed	aux:pass
36	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 consulted	parataxis
37	over	over	ADP	_	36 handed	compound:prt
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 Lama	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Lama	det
40	Lama	Lama	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 handed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 consulted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	participle		King's children not said here			tree rules
2	abide	to-infinitive				by King's bargain	tree rules
3	consult	past	the King reluctant part with any of King's children and Queen			together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hand over	should · passive			the Lama	of the young Princes; which obl	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: of prince=Initial_Location to lama=Destination
5	bargain		King				nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 19

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 19