The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 45
They shall provide me with bride-maidens too.
Who acts: guests · What happens: provide · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2840): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 provide | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 provide | aux |
| 3 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 provide | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 maidens | case |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maidens | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bride | punct |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 provide | obl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 provide | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 provide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | shall | guests = guest | me | with bride maidens | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with maiden=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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