More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 18
All these," she said to the eldest daughter, "I will give you, on condition that you put off your marriage for one day and allow me to go into his room alone at night."
Who acts: damsel, I, you, your · What happens: say, give, put off, allow, go, marry · To what, where: these, you, condition, me, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, I, you, your), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 these | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 these | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 these | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 condition | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 condition | case |
| 19 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 put | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 put | nsubj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 condition | acl:relcl |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 day | nummod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 allow | cc |
| 30 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 give | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 allow | iobj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 allow | xcomp |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 room | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 room | nmod:poss |
| 36 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | obl |
| 37 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 33 go | advmod |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 night | case |
| 39 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | damsel | these | to the eldest daughter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to daughter=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | you | condition | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme on condition=Asset | |||
| 3 | put off | past | you | condition | day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent that=Asset marriage=Goal | |||
| 4 | allow | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | knight's room | night | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | marry | your | nom marriage «state transitive»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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