The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 86
“Now,” said the Dwarf, “I am master of my rival’s fate, but I will give him his life and permission to depart unharmed if you, Princess, will consent to marry me.”
Who acts: Dwarf, rival · What happens: say, be, give, depart, consent, marry · To what, where: master, life, you, Dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, rival), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dwarf | det |
| 7 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 master | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 master | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 master | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 master | cop |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dwarf | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fate | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rival | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 rival | case |
| 17 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 master | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 permission | cc |
| 27 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 life | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 depart | mark |
| 29 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 permission | acl |
| 30 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 depart | xcomp |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 you | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Princess | punct |
| 34 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 consent | punct |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 consent | aux |
| 37 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 give | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 marry | mark |
| 39 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 consent | xcomp |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 marry | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Dwarf | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the Dwarf = dwarf | master | of my rival's fate | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | the Dwarf = dwarf | Fate's life and permission | you | Princess obl | tree rules | ||
| 4 | depart in a quote | to-infinitive | the Dwarf = dwarf not said here | unharmed property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | consent in a quote | future | the Dwarf = dwarf not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | the Dwarf = dwarf not said here | the Dwarf = dwarf | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fate in a quote | my rival | nom fate «event 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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