The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 139
“The marriage festivities are already begun, so you shall marry my daughter this very day.”
Who acts: you · What happens: begin, marry · To what, where: marriage festivities, daughter
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), 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 | _ | 7 begun | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 festivities | det |
| 3 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 festivities | compound |
| 4 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 begun | aux:pass |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 begun | advmod |
| 7 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marry | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 marry | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 marry | aux |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begun | parataxis |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marry | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 day | advmod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marry | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begun | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present · passive | the marriage festivities | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | shall | you | my daughter | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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