The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 42
Whoever drinks the wine I hold Can wield the sword that hangs above; Then let him use it for the right, And win a royal maiden’s love.
Who acts: Whoever, I, sword, Niels, royal maiden · What happens: drink, hold, wield, hang, let, use · To what, where: wine, sword, Niels, love
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, I, sword, Niels), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 drinks | nsubj |
| 2 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wine | det |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drinks | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wine | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wield | aux |
| 8 | wield | wield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hold | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wield | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hangs | nsubj |
| 12 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sword | acl:relcl |
| 13 | above | above | ADV | _ | 12 hangs | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 let | advmod |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 drinks | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 right | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 right | det |
| 22 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 win | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 win | cc |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 maiden | det |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 maiden | amod |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 love | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 maiden | case |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 win | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | Whoever | the wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | I | the wine not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wield | can | I not said here | the sword | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | present | the sword | above property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | Niels | then | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | use | infinitive | Niels not said here | sword | for the right | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for right=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | win | infinitive | a royal maiden's love | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | love | a royal maiden | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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