The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 70
I’ll give my youngest daughter for a wife to whoever brings three crowns to me like the others; and if he doesn’t care to be married, some other one will, and I’ll make his fortune.’
Who acts: I, whoever, youngest · What happens: give, bring, not care, marry, make · To what, where: youngest daughter, three crowns, me, fortune
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, whoever, youngest), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 12 brings | mark |
| 11 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 brings | nsubj |
| 12 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | advcl |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 crowns | nummod |
| 14 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brings | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brings | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brings | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 care | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 care | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 care | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 care | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 care | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 care | advmod |
| 26 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 married | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 married | aux:pass |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 care | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 will | punct |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 one | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 one | amod |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 will | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 married | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 make | nsubj |
| 38 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 make | aux |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | advcl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | my youngest daughter | for a wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme for wife=Asset | |||
| 2 | bring | present | whoever | three crowns | me | like the others | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to i=Destination | ||
| 3 | not care a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | youngest = young | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | youngest = young not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | make | future | I | youngest's fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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