The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 83
But if he would give his daughter to Manus, she would bestow on him the third part of her own kingdom, with much treasure beside.
Who acts: earl, wife · What happens: give, bestow · To what, where: daughter, Manus, third part
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 (earl, wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 bestow | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bestow | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Manus | case |
| 9 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bestow | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bestow | aux |
| 13 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bestow | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 part | amod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bestow | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kingdom | amod |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 treasure | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 treasure | case |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 treasure | amod |
| 26 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bestow | obl |
| 27 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 treasure | case |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bestow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | earl | earl's daughter | Manus | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to manus=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bestow | would | wife | the third part of wife's own kingdom | on earl; with much treasure | tree rules |
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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