The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 96
But it was her wish also; therefore, to you I entrust the duty of finding a lady fitted to share my throne; only, see that she comes neither from a small town nor a remote island.”
Who acts: heart, you, duty, wife · What happens: be, entrust, find, fit, share, see · To what, where: wish, duty, lady, throne, small town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, you, duty, wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wish | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 you | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 also | punct |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 you | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 therefore | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 entrust | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 entrust | nsubj |
| 13 | entrust | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 duty | det |
| 15 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entrust | obj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 finding | mark |
| 17 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 duty | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finding | obj |
| 20 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lady | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 share | mark |
| 22 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fitted | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 throne | nmod:poss |
| 24 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 share | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 see | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 only | punct |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 comes | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 comes | nsubj |
| 31 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | ccomp |
| 32 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 31 comes | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 town | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 town | det |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 town | amod |
| 36 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 comes | obl |
| 37 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 40 island | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 island | det |
| 39 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 island | amod |
| 40 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 town | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | heart | wife's wish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | entrust | present | you | the duty | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | the duty not said here | a lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fit | participle | a lady not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | share | to-infinitive | my throne | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | come | present | wife | a small town nor a remote island | neither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location |
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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