The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 44
Then the young man gave her his promise to make her his wife, and the girl fulfilled her part of the bargain, and food was plentiful on the island all through the long winter months, though he never knew how it got there.
Who acts: young man, girl, food, bow · What happens: give, make, fulfil, be, not know, get · To what, where: promise, girl, wife, part, island · 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 (young man, girl, food, bow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gave | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fulfilled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fulfilled | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 18 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 part | nmod:poss |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fulfilled | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bargain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bargain | det |
| 23 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 plentiful | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 plentiful | cc |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plentiful | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 plentiful | cop |
| 28 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fulfilled | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 island | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 island | det |
| 31 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plentiful | obl |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 months | advmod |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 months | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 months | det |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 months | amod |
| 36 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 months | compound |
| 37 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 plentiful | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 knew | punct |
| 39 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 42 knew | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 knew | nsubj |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 knew | advmod |
| 42 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fulfilled | conj |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 got | advmod |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 got | nsubj |
| 45 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 knew | ccomp |
| 46 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 got | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the young man | bow's promise | girl | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient promise=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | bow's wife | girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary wife=Product | |||
| 3 | fulfil | past | the girl | girl's part of the bargain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | food | the island | month | plentiful property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | not know | past | bow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | get | past | food | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | promise | bow | nom promise «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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