The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 67
If he will give you his daughter freely, well and good; and if not, I will ravage his kingdom and bring her away by force.’
Who acts: Quimus, I · What happens: give, ravage, bring away · To what, where: daughter, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quimus, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 good | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 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 | 4 give | iobj |
| 8 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 good | discourse |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 good | cc |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ravage | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ravage | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 not | mark |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 ravage | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 not | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ravage | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ravage | aux |
| 20 | ravage | ravage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 good | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ravage | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bring | cc |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ravage | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 bring | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 force | case |
| 28 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | Quimus | Quimus's daughter | freely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | ravage | future | I | Quimus's kingdom | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring away | infinitive | I not said here | daughter | by force; away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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