The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 26

‘Either let one of you take me for a wife, or give me your consent to take a new lord for myself, that my lands be not without a master.’

Who acts: you, lands, your · What happens: let, take, give, not be, consent · To what, where: one, me, consent, new lord

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lands, your), 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	_	3 let	punct
2	Either	either	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc:preconj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 let	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 take	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 consent	nmod:poss
17	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lord	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lord	amod
22	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 myself	case
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 master	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 master	mark
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lands	nmod:poss
28	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 master	nsubj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 master	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 master	advmod
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 master	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 master	det
33	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	one			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	take	present	you	me		for a wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
3	give	infinitive	you not said here	your consent	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient consent=Theme
4	take	to-infinitive	you not said here	a new lord		for myself	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lord=Theme for myself=Beneficiary
5	not is	infinitive	my lands			without a master	tree rules
6	consent		your				nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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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