The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 83
“No,” answered the king’s son, “I cannot stay; but, I pray you, grant my request, and give me a good horse, and let me go in peace, and when I have fulfilled my vow then I will return and marry your daughter.”
Who acts: son, my · What happens: answer, not stay, pray, grant, give, let · To what, where: you, request, good horse, son, peace, vow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, my), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stay | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 stay | advmod |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pray | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 pray | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 but | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | nsubj |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grant | punct |
| 23 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 pray | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 request | nmod:poss |
| 25 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grant | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 give | cc |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 grant | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 horse | amod |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 let | cc |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 pray | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 let | obj |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 let | xcomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 peace | case |
| 39 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 go | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fulfilled | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 fulfilled | cc |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 fulfilled | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 fulfilled | aux |
| 45 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 vow | nmod:poss |
| 47 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fulfilled | obj |
| 48 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 return | advmod |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 return | nsubj |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 return | aux |
| 51 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 fulfilled | advcl |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 marry | cc |
| 53 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 return | conj |
| 54 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 55 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 marry | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the king's son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not stay in a quote | can | the king's son = son | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | the king's son = son | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grant in a quote | infinitive | the king's son = son not said here | my request | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | the king's son = son not said here | a good horse | the king's son = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme | |||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | the king's son = son not said here | the king's son = son | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | the king's son = son not said here | peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 8 | fulfil in a quote | present · perfect | the king's son = son | my vow | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | return in a quote | future | the king's son = son | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | marry in a quote | infinitive | the king's son = son not said here | your daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 11 | request in a quote | my | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | vow in a quote | my | nom vow «communication 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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