The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 27
My father did not let me marry till I had won the golden sword you see me wear.”
Who acts: father, me, I, you · What happens: not let, marry, win, see, wear · To what, where: me, golden sword
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, me, I, you), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 won | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 won | aux |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 marry | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sword | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sword | amod |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sword | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wear | nsubj |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | past · do-support | My father | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | me not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | win | past · perfect | I | the golden sword | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | the golden sword not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wear | infinitive | me | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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