The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 41

‘First give me thy word that thou wilt do nothing towards me that is not just, and when thou hast won for me that which I shall ask, then thou shalt wed my daughter.’

Who acts: you, thou, thy · What happens: give, do, not be, ask, wed, word · To what, where: word, me, that, daughter

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 (you, thou, thy), 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 give	punct
2	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 do	obj
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 do	nsubj
9	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 word	acl:relcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 do	obj
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	obl
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 won	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 won	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 won	advmod
17	just	just	ADV	_	23 won	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 won	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 won	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 hast	advmod
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 hast	nsubj
22	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 won	aux:pass
23	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 give	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 won	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ask	mark
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 ask	nsubj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ask	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 ask	aux
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 won	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wed	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 wed	advmod
33	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 wed	nsubj
34	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	35 wed	aux
35	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wed	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	thy word	me		first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme
2	do	future	thou	thy word			towards me	tree rules
3	not is	present · passive		that			for me; win property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	shall						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wed	shall	thou	my daughter		then		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
6	word		thy					nom word «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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