The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 84
It will take me six hundred years’ hard work to do that; so marry my daughter and let us all live happily together here.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, do, marry, let, live · To what, where: me, hard work, daughter, us
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 work | acl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 marry | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 marry | advmod |
| 16 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marry | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 marry | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 live | advmod |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | advcl |
| 24 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 23 live | advmod |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 live | advmod |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 live | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | It | me | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | hard work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | present | here | all, happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «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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