The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 95
Four long years I was married to thee; Three sweet babes I bore to thee; Brown Bear of Norway, turn to me.
Who acts: I · What happens: marry, bear, turn · To what, where: Four long years, Three sweet babes, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 married | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 babes | punct |
| 10 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 babes | nummod |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 babes | amod |
| 12 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 married | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bore | nsubj |
| 14 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 babes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 thee | case |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 bore | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bear | punct |
| 18 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Bear | amod |
| 19 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 babes | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Norway | case |
| 21 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bear | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turn | punct |
| 23 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 married | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 turn | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | Four long years | to thee; Three sweet babes obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to thou=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | I | Three sweet babes not said here | to thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result |
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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