The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 17

“The marriage cannot take place,” he said shortly, “till the youth has joined to their roots all the trees he cut down yesterday.”

Who acts: marriage, king · What happens: not take, say, join, cut down · To what, where: place, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, king), 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	_	6 take	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 marriage	det
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	parataxis
12	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 joined	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 joined	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 youth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 joined	obl
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 joined	aux
19	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 roots	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 roots	nmod:poss
22	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 joined	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 trees	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trees	det
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 roots	nmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 trees	acl:relcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 joined	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	can	the marriage	place			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	king			shortly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	join in a quote	present · perfect			till the youth; yesterday	to commands's roots all trees	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to root=Co-Patient
4	cut down in a quote	past	king	all trees not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product

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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