The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 45
Either you shall be my Prime Minister, or else you shall marry my daughter and reign after me.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: Prime Minister, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Either | either | CCONJ | _ | 7 Minister | cc:preconj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 Minister | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 Minister | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Minister | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 7 Minister | compound |
| 7 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 marry | cc |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 marry | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Minister | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reign | cc |
| 17 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Minister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | you | my Prime Minister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | shall | you | my daughter and reign | after me | else property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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