The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 49
I require thee to sow fresh flax in the ground that my daughter may wear a veil spun from it on the day of her wedding.’
Who acts: I, daughter · What happens: require, sow, wear, spin, wed · To what, where: thee, fresh flax, ground, veil, flax
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 (I, daughter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 require | nsubj |
| 2 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 require | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sow | mark |
| 5 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 require | advcl |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flax | amod |
| 7 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sow | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sow | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wear | obj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wear | aux |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ground | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 veil | det |
| 17 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wear | obj |
| 18 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 veil | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spun | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spun | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wedding | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 require | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present | I | thee | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | sow | to-infinitive | I not said here | fresh flax | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flax=Theme in ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | wear | may | my daughter | the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spin | participle | a veil not said here | flax | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | wed | daughter | nom wedding «event 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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