The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 93
‘To-morrow,’ said the girl, who was the giant’s daughter, ‘to-morrow thou wilt get the choice of my two sisters to marry, but thou must answer that thou wilt not take either, but only me.
Who acts: girl, thou · What happens: say, be, get, marry, answer, not take · To what, where: girl, giant daughter, choice, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, thou), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 daughter | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 daughter | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 choice | det |
| 26 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sisters | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 sisters | nummod |
| 30 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 choice | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 marry | mark |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sisters | acl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 answer | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 answer | cc |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 answer | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 answer | aux |
| 37 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 get | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 take | obl |
| 39 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 take | nsubj |
| 40 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 42 take | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 take | advmod |
| 42 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 answer | ccomp |
| 43 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 take | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 me | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 me | cc |
| 46 | only | only | ADV | _ | 47 me | advmod |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl and the giant daughter | to morrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the girl and the giant daughter | the giant daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | future | thou | the choice of my two sisters | to morrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | must | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not take | future | thou | that | either property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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