The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 85
‘Wilt thou wed me, thou farmer’s daughter?’ he said to the eldest.
Who acts: thou, farmer · What happens: wed, daughter, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, farmer), 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 | _ | 4 wed | punct |
| 2 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 wed | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wed | nsubj |
| 4 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 daughter | nsubj |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 farmer | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wed | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wed | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 eldest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eldest | det |
| 17 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wed | future | thou | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | daughter | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | farmer | to the eldest | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to eld=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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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