The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 69
My beloved no thought has taken To free his bride, that was so dear.”
Who acts: that · What happens: belov, take, be · To what, where: thought
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beloved | belov | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 thought | det |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beloved | ccomp |
| 7 | To | to | PART | _ | 8 free | mark |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 taken | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 free | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dear | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dear | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dear | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 dear | advmod |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beloved | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beloved | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belov | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect · passive | no thought | free property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | dear property | tree rules |
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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