The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 40
“I have come for something else besides a bed,” replied the young man, drawing his sword, “and if you do not promise to give me your youngest daughter as my wife I will stab you through the heart.”
Who acts: young man, you · What happens: come, beside, reply, draw, not promise, give · To what, where: bed, sword, youngest daughter, young man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 besides | csubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 something | advmod |
| 8 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 besides | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 besides | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 besides | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drawing | punct |
| 18 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sword | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drawing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 promise | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 promise | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 promise | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 promise | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 promise | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 promise | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 promise | advmod |
| 28 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drawing | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 promise | xcomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 give | iobj |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 daughter | amod |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 wife | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obl |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 stab | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 stab | aux |
| 40 | stab | stab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wife | acl:relcl |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 stab | obj |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 heart | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 heart | det |
| 44 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stab | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 besides | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 besides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the young man = man | for something | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beside in a quote | present | a bed | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the young man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | the young man not said here | man's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your youngest daughter | the young man = man | as my wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||
| 7 | stab in a quote | future | the young man = man | you | through the heart | vn poke-19-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Instrument through heart=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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