More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 66
"Marriage I will grant you none Till Uncle Ratton he comes home."
Who acts: Marriage, none · What happens: grant, come · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marriage, none), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grant | punct |
| 2 | Marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grant | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grant | aux |
| 5 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 grant | obj |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 10 Ratton | case |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ratton | compound |
| 10 | Ratton | Ratton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 none | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grant | parataxis |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grant | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant in a quote | future | Marriage | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | none | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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