The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 15

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 14. 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	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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