The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 23
“Well, well, it’s all the same to me—I will give you my daughter to wife; but, then, you really and truly must say to me: ‘To your good health.’”
Who acts: pond, king, you · What happens: be, give, say · To what, where: king, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pond, king, 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 | _ | 10 same | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 same | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 same | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 same | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 same | cop |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 same | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 same | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 same | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wife | mark |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 say | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 say | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 but | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 say | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 say | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 say | nsubj |
| 28 | really | really | ADV | _ | 32 say | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 truly | cc |
| 30 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 28 really | conj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 say | aux |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 same | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 say | obl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 health | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 health | punct |
| 37 | To | to | ADP | _ | 40 health | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 health | nmod:poss |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 health | amod |
| 40 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 say | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 same | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 same | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | pond | king | same property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | king | my daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | must | you | king | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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