The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 75
'This is the place where dwell the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig, who are to be wedded to-morrow to three giants.'
Who acts: This · What happens: be, dwell, wed · To what, where: place, three daughters, knight
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (This), 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 place | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 dwell | advmod |
| 7 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughters | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 daughters | nummod |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwell | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 knight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughters | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Grianaig | case |
| 15 | Grianaig | Grianaig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 knight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wedded | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wedded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wedded | aux:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wedded | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wedded | aux:pass |
| 21 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 knight | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 morrow | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wedded | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 giants | case |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 giants | nummod |
| 27 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wedded | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | infinitive | the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme daughter=Location | |||||
| 3 | wed | present · passive | the knight of Grianaig | to morrow; to three giants | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to morrow=Co-Patient |
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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