More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 66
And I shall ride by her side upon a milk-white steed with a star in my crown; they give me this honour as being a christened knight.
Who acts: I, Elves, my · What happens: ride, give, christen, be, crown · To what, where: crown, honour, me
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Elves, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ride | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | aux |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | obl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 steed | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 steed | det |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 milk | punct |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 steed | amod |
| 13 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 star | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 star | det |
| 16 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steed | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 crown | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 crown | nmod:poss |
| 19 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 honour | det |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 knight | case |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 knight | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 knight | det |
| 29 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 knight | amod |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | shall | I | my crown | by court's side; upon a white steed with a star | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give | present | Elves = elf | this honour | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient honour=Theme | |||
| 3 | christen | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | gerund | as a christened knight | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | crown | my | nom crown «communication 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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