The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 20
‘Yspaddaden Penkawr, give us thy daughter and thou shalt keep her dower.
Who acts: Yspaddaden, thou, Custennin · What happens: give, keep, dower · To what, where: daughter, dower
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yspaddaden, thou, Custennin), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yspaddaden | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | iobj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 keep | aux |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dower | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dower | dower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Yspaddaden | thy daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | shall | thou | Custennin's dower | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dower | Custennin | nom dower «possession 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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