The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 37

The man I marry must be the man who killed the robbers and the giant, and overcame my page.”

Who acts: I, man, my · What happens: marry, be, kill, overcome, page · To what, where: man, robbers, page

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 (I, man, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
4	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 man	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 killed	nsubj
10	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 robbers	det
12	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 killed	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 giant	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 robbers	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 overcame	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 overcame	cc
18	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 page	nmod:poss
20	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 overcame	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	marry	present	I	the man not said here	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	is a	must	the man	the man	tree rules
3	kill	past	the man	the robbers	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme
4	overcome	past	the man not said here	my page	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot page=Theme
5	page		my		nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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