The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 62

“All these,” she said to the eldest dochter, “I will give you, on condition that you put off your marriage for ae day, and allow me to go into his room alone at night.”

Who acts: wife, eldest dochter, your · What happens: say, give, put off, allow, go, marry · To what, where: these, eldest dochter, condition, wife, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, eldest dochter, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 these	det:predet
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 these	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 these	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 dochter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dochter	det
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 dochter	amod
11	dochter	dochter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 condition	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 condition	case
20	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 put	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 condition	acl:relcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 put	compound:prt
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 marriage	nmod:poss
26	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	ae	ae	X	_	29 day	compound
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 allow	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 allow	cc
32	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 give	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 allow	iobj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 go	mark
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 allow	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 room	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 room	nmod:poss
38	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
39	alone	alone	ADV	_	35 go	advmod
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 night	case
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife	these	the eldest dochter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dochter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	wife	condition	the eldest dochter = dochter				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient condition=Theme
3	put off in a quote	past	the eldest dochter = dochter	condition			day		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent that=Asset marriage=Goal
4	allow in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here		wife				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	wife not said here			knight's room	night	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
6	marry in a quote		your						nom marriage «state 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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