The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 109
“Before you obtain the hand of my daughter and half my kingdom,” he said to him, “you must do another deed of valor.
Who acts: hero, tailor · What happens: obtain, say, do · To what, where: hand, hero, deed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, tailor), 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 | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 2 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 obtain | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 obtain | nsubj |
| 4 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obtain | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kingdom | cc |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 13 kingdom | det:predet |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 obtain | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obtain | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | conj |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 deed | det |
| 26 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 valor | case |
| 28 | valor | valor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deed | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain in a quote | present | hero | the hand of my daughter and my kingdom | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | tailor | hero | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | must | hero | another deed of valor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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