The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 116
“My daughter is about to be married,” said the King; “will you give her away?”
Who acts: daughter, King, you · What happens: be, marry, say, give away · To what, where: thanks · 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 (daughter, King, you), 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 about | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 about | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 married | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 about | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 give | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My daughter | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | My daughter not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give away in a quote | future | you | thanks | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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