The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 80
I know a bride that will suit you well, and that is the daughter of the mighty earl of Finghaidh, that does homage for his lands to me.
Who acts: I, bride, that · What happens: know, suit, be, do · To what, where: bride, you, daughter, homage, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bride, that), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 suit | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 suit | aux |
| 7 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bride | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 suit | obj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 suit | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 daughter | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 daughter | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 daughter | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 earl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earl | det |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 earl | amod |
| 19 | earl | earl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Finghaidh | case |
| 21 | Finghaidh | Finghaidh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 earl | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 does | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 does | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 25 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 does | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 lands | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 does | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 does | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suit | future | a bride | you | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the daughter | of the mighty earl of Finghaidh | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | present | that | homage | me | for Finghaidh's lands | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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