The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 48
I’m a lady of honour Who live in the sea; Come down, Maurice Connor, And be married to me.
Who acts: I, honour · What happens: be, live, come down, marry · To what, where: lady, sea, Maurice Connor, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, honour), 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 | 2 ’m | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’m | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 honour | case |
| 6 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod |
| 7 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 live | nsubj |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 honour | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 13 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’m | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 Come | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Connor | punct |
| 16 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Connor | compound |
| 17 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 married | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 married | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 married | aux:pass |
| 21 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ’m | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 married | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | a lady of honour | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | honour | the sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | come down | infinitive | I not said here | Maurice Connor | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | marry | infinitive · passive | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to i=Co-Patient |
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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