The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 139

“I have a fine shirt which I want to wear as my wedding shirt, but three drops of tallow have got upon it which I want to have washed off, and I have vowed to marry no one but the woman who is able to do it.

Who acts: stepmother, fine shirt, three drops, woman · What happens: want, wear, get, wash off, vow, marry · To what, where: fine shirt, one, drop

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, fine shirt, three drops, woman), 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	_	37 vowed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 vowed	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shirt	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shirt	amod
6	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 want	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shirt	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wear	mark
11	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 shirt	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shirt	nmod:poss
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shirt	compound
15	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wear	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 drops	nummod
19	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 got	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 tallow	case
21	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drops	nmod
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 got	aux
23	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 have	parataxis
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 want	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 got	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 washed	mark
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 washed	aux
31	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 want	xcomp
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 washed	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 vowed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 vowed	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 vowed	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 vowed	aux
37	vowed	vow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
38	to	to	PART	_	39 marry	mark
39	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 vowed	xcomp
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marry	obj
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 woman	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 woman	det
44	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 one	conj
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 able	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 able	cop
47	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 woman	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 do	mark
49	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 able	xcomp
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 do	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	the stepmother = stepmother	a fine shirt		tree rules
2	wear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a fine shirt not said here		as my wedding shirt	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	get in a quote	present · perfect	three drops of tallow		upon shirt	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	want in a quote	present	the stepmother = stepmother			tree rules
5	wash off not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect	the stepmother = stepmother not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	vow in a quote	present · perfect	the stepmother = stepmother			tree rules
7	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the stepmother = stepmother not said here	no one but the woman		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
8	is in a quote	present	the woman		able property	tree rules
9	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	drop		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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