More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 46
I will go to London in your stead; grant me only your apparel and your retinue of knights.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, grant · To what, where: London, stead, me
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 London | case |
| 5 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stead | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stead | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | obj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 apparel | advmod |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 apparel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 retinue | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 17 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 apparel | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 knights | case |
| 19 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 retinue | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | London | your stead | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to london=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grant | infinitive | I not said here | me | your apparel and your retinue of knights obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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