The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 71

“The first man who brings it to me from my daughter’s room,” cried he, “shall not only have her to wife, but after my death shall reign in my stead.”

Who acts: first man, my · What happens: bring, cry, not have, reign, die · To what, where: sword, me, room, king, daughter, stead · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 brings	nsubj
6	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brings	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 brings	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 room	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 daughter	case
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brings	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brings	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 brings	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wife	mark
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reign	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 reign	cc
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 death	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 death	nmod:poss
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reign	obl
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 reign	aux
34	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 stead	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 stead	nmod:poss
37	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reign	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bring in a quote	present	the first man	sword	me	my daughter's room		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination from room=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past		king				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	not have in a quote	shall		daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	reign in a quote	shall				my stead	after my death	tree rules
5	die in a quote		my					nom death «event intransitive»: 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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