The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 121
‘It is that thou marry my mother Rhiannon and become lord of the fair lands that I will give her for dowry.
Who acts: friend, fair lands · What happens: be, become, give · To what, where: lord, Rhiannon
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, fair lands), 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 | _ | 6 marry | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 marry | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marry | obj |
| 9 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 become | cc |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 marry | conj |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 become | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lands | det |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lands | amod |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lord | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 give | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lands | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 dowry | case |
| 23 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | friend | marry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | friend not said here | lord of the fair lands | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | future | the fair lands | Rhiannon | for dowry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme for dowry=Asset |
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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