The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 49
“This is what you must do to obtain the reward which the King promises.
Who acts: This, you, King · What happens: be, do, obtain, promise · To what, where: reward
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 (This, you, King), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 obtain | mark |
| 9 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reward | det |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtain | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 promises | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 promises | nsubj |
| 15 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 reward | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | obtain in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the reward | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reward=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | the King | the reward | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=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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