The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 38
“You will have to make me your wife,” she said at last, “for you have drawn my blood, and I belong to you.”
Who acts: You, wife · What happens: have, make, say, draw, belong · To what, where: wife, last, blood, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wife), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drawn | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 drawn | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 drawn | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 drawn | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 drawn | aux |
| 21 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 blood | nmod:poss |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drawn | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 belong | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 belong | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 belong | nsubj |
| 27 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 drawn | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 belong | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | your wife | wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary wife=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | draw in a quote | present · perfect | you | my blood | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | ||||
| 5 | belong in a quote | present | wife | you | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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