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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 30

“Grant me, sire, the hand of the queen, your niece,” replied the young man, bowing low, “and I will defend her kingdom against all her enemies.”

Who acts: you, young man · What happens: grant, reply, bow, defend · To what, where: sire, young man, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young man), 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

punctobjpunctobjpunctdetapposcasedetnmodpunctnmod:possappospunctpunctadvcldetamodobjpunctadvcladvmodpunctpunctccnsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjcasedet:predetnmod:possoblpunctpunctroot“PUNCTGrantVERBmePRON,PUNCTsireNOUN,PUNCTtheDEThandNOUNofADPtheDETqueenNOUN,PUNCTyourPRONnieceNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETyoungADJmanNOUN,PUNCTbowingVERBlowADV,PUNCT“PUNCTandCCONJIPRONwillAUXdefendVERBherPRONkingdomNOUNagainstADPallDETherPRONenemiesNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Grantpunct
2GrantgrantVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 Grantobj
4,,PUNCT_5 sirepunct
5siresireNOUNNumber=Sing2 Grantobj
6,,PUNCT_8 handpunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 handdet
8handhandNOUNNumber=Sing5 sireappos
9ofofADP_11 queencase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 queendet
11queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing8 handnmod
12,,PUNCT_14 niecepunct
13youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 niecenmod:poss
14niecenieceNOUNNumber=Sing11 queenappos
15,,PUNCT_17 repliedpunct
16”"PUNCT_17 repliedpunct
17repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 Grantadvcl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 mandet
19youngyoungADJDegree=Pos20 manamod
20manmanNOUNNumber=Sing17 repliedobj
21,,PUNCT_22 bowingpunct
22bowingbowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 repliedadvcl
23lowlowADVDegree=Pos22 bowingadvmod
24,,PUNCT_29 defendpunct
25“"PUNCT_29 defendpunct
26andandCCONJ_29 defendcc
27IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 defendnsubj
28willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin29 defendaux
29defenddefendVERBVerbForm=Inf22 bowingadvcl
30herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 kingdomnmod:poss
31kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing29 defendobj
32againstagainstADP_35 enemiescase
33allallDETPronType=Tot35 enemiesdet:predet
34herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 enemiesnmod:poss
35enemiesenemyNOUNNumber=Plur29 defendobl
36..PUNCT_2 Grantpunct
37”"PUNCT_2 Grantpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1grant in a quoteimperativeyou not said heresirethe young man = manvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal sire=Theme
2reply speech: assertpastthe young manvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3bowgerundthe young man not said herelow propertyvn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4defend in a quotefuturethe young man = manqueen's kingdomagainst queen's enemiesvn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Beneficiary against enemy=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 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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