The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 26
“To get rid of the gardener you must send both suitors to a very distant country, and the one who returns first shall marry your daughter.”
Who acts: you, one · What happens: get, send, return, marry · To what, where: suitors, distant country, 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, one), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 get | mark |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rid | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 send | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 send | aux |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gardener | acl:relcl |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 suitors | det |
| 12 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 send | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 distant | advmod |
| 16 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 marry | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 marry | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marry | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 returns | nsubj |
| 23 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 returns | advmod |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 marry | aux |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marry | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | must | you | both suitors | a distant country | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 3 | return in a quote | present | the one | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | shall | the one | your daughter | 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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