The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 139
“But dry your tears, my darlings,” said Kabo, “I will be your husband, and my wives shall be your slaves.
Who acts: Kabo, wives · What happens: dry, say, be · To what, where: tears, husband, slaves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo, wives), 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 | _ | 3 dry | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 dry | cc |
| 3 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darlings | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 darlings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | darlings | darling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tears | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dry | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dry | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 husband | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 husband | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 husband | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 husband | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Kabo | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 slaves | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 slaves | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wives | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 slaves | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 slaves | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 slaves | cop |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry in a quote | infinitive | your tears and my darlings | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kabo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | Kabo | your husband | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | shall | my wives | your slaves | tree rules |
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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