More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 37
Bring your bonny bridegroom to my cell," said she to the young bride soon after her marriage; "he shall see what comes o' spinning, and never will he tie you to the spinning-wheel."
Who acts: you, bridegroom, troth, bride · What happens: bring, say, see, come, spin, not tie · To what, where: bonny bridegroom, cell, young bride, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bridegroom, troth, bride), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bridegroom | compound |
| 4 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cell | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cell | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | acl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bride | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bride | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bride | amod |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 marriage | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 marriage | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 comes | nsubj |
| 26 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | ccomp |
| 27 | o | o | ADV | _ | 26 comes | advmod |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 spinning | punct |
| 29 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 comes | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tie | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tie | cc |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 tie | advmod |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 tie | aux |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 tie | nsubj |
| 35 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 tie | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 wheel | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wheel | det |
| 39 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wheel | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 spinning | punct |
| 41 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tie | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | your bonny bridegroom | my cell | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme to cell=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | bridegroom | the young bride | after bride's marriage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bride=Recipient | |||
| 3 | see | shall | troth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | not tie | future | troth | you | to the spinning wheel | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to wheel=Co-Patient | |||
| 7 | marry in a quote | bride | 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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