The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 29
I do not want your treasures, but,’ she added softly, ‘if you will give me your heart--if you will marry me--I will add twenty kingdoms to the one you have already; you shall have a hundred castles full of gold and five hundred full of silver, and, in short, anything you like to ask me for.’
Who acts: I, Miranda, you, your · What happens: not want, add, give, marry, have, like · To what, where: treasures, heart, me, twenty kingdoms, one, hundred castles
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Miranda, you, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 6 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 added | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 12 added | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 added | nsubj |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 13 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 added | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 added | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 marry | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 marry | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | parataxis |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | obj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 add | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 add | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 add | aux |
| 32 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 marry | conj |
| 33 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 kingdoms | nummod |
| 34 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 add | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 one | det |
| 37 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 add | obl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 one | acl:relcl |
| 40 | already | already | ADV | _ | 39 have | advmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 have | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 have | aux |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | parataxis |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 hundred | det |
| 46 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 castles | nummod |
| 47 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 have | obj |
| 48 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 castles | amod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 gold | case |
| 50 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 full | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 hundred | cc |
| 52 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 hundred | compound |
| 53 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 gold | nmod |
| 54 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 hundred | amod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 silver | case |
| 56 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 full | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 anything | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 anything | cc |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 and | punct |
| 60 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 short | case |
| 61 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 anything | amod |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 short | punct |
| 63 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 have | parataxis |
| 64 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 65 like | nsubj |
| 65 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 anything | acl:relcl |
| 66 | to | to | PART | _ | 67 ask | mark |
| 67 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 65 like | xcomp |
| 68 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 67 ask | iobj |
| 69 | for | for | ADP | _ | 67 ask | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 71 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | your treasures | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Miranda | softly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | your heart | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heart=Theme | |||
| 4 | marry a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | future | I | twenty kingdoms | the one | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient to one=Co-Patient | |||
| 6 | have | present | you | the one not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | shall | you | hundred castles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient | ||||
| 8 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 10 | treasure | your | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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