The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 92
I am Shepherd Paul, and I have come to wrestle with you, and to free your wife from your clutches.”
Who acts: I, your · What happens: be, come, wrestle, clutch · To what, where: Shepherd Paul
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Paul | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Paul | cop |
| 3 | Shepherd | Shepherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Paul | compound |
| 4 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 Paul | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wrestle | mark |
| 11 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wrestle | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 free | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 free | mark |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Paul | parataxis |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 free | nsubj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 clutches | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 22 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 free | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Paul | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Paul | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Shepherd Paul | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | I | Shepherd Paul not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrestle | to-infinitive | I not said here | with you | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | clutch | your | nom clutch «act 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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