The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 138
“Young man, you shall be my son-in-law,” cried the King.
Who acts: you, Young man · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: son, law · 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 (you, Young man), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 son | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 son | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 law | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | shall | you | my son | law | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Young man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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