The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 78
“If your magic can produce such a baby,” he said, “you must be greater than any wizard that ever lived, and shall have my daughter in marriage.”
Who acts: magic, you, wizard · What happens: produce, say, be, live, have · To what, where: baby, daughter, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic, you, wizard), 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 | _ | 6 produce | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 produce | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 magic | nmod:poss |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 produce | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 produce | aux |
| 6 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 baby | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 produce | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 produce | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 produce | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 greater | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 greater | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 greater | cop |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 said | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 wizard | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 wizard | det |
| 22 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 greater | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 lived | advmod |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wizard | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 marriage | case |
| 33 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | your magic | such baby | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | magic | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | you | than any wizard; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | past | any wizard | ever | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | my daughter | marriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «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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