The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 87

You hold yourself favoured because you have as a bride the daughter of a mighty earl; but do you know what bride the wife of Iarlaid sought for her own son?

Who acts: You, wife · What happens: hold, favour, have, know, bride, seek · To what, where: yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 hold	obj
4	favoured	favour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hold	xcomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 favoured	advcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 bride	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 daughter	det
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bride	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 earl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 earl	det
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 earl	amod
16	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hold	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 bride	nsubj
23	bride	bride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 know	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wife	det
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sought	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Iarlaid	case
27	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wife	nmod
28	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bride	ccomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 son	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 son	amod
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sought	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	present	You	yourself		tree rules
2	favour	participle	You not said here			tree rules
3	have	present	you		as a bride and the daughter of a mighty earl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	know	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	bride	past				tree rules
6	seek	past	the wife of Iarlaid		for wife's own son	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for son=Theme

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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