The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 179
Then the King spoke: “You have freed the castle from its curse, and you shall marry my daughter.”
Who acts: King, you, castle · What happens: speak, free, marry, curse · To what, where: You, curse, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, castle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 freed | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 freed | aux |
| 9 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spoke | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 freed | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 curse | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 curse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 freed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 marry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 marry | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 marry | aux |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 freed | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the King | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | free in a quote | present · perfect · passive | You | castle's curse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | shall | you | my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | curse in a quote | castle | nom curse «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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