The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 97
Choose one of my two elder daughters to wife, and thou shalt take her to your father’s house the day after the wedding.’
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: choose, take · To what, where: one, wife, house
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 (you, 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 | Choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Choose | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 daughters | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 daughters | nummod |
| 6 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughters | amod |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wife | mark |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughters | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Choose | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 wedding | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wedding | det |
| 25 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | one of my two elder daughters | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | shall | thou | wife | your father's house | after the wedding; day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination |
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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