The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 104
“I am the first to come back,” said he to the King; now fulfil your promise, and give me the princess in marriage.
Who acts: son, your · What happens: be, come back, say, fulfil, give, promise · To what, where: King, promise, princess, me, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, your), 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 first | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 first | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 first | acl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fulfil | punct |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 fulfil | advmod |
| 18 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fulfil | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 fulfil | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 princess | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | son | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | son | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fulfil | infinitive | your promise | now | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | the princess | me | marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient princess=Theme | |||
| 6 | promise | your | nom promise «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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