The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 76
But the King looked kindly at her, held out his hand, and said, ‘Will you come with me to my castle and be my dear wife?’
Who acts: King, you · What happens: look, hold out, say, come, be · To what, where: hand, castle, dear wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 held | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 18 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 castle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wife | cc |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wife | cop |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wife | amod |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the King | at girl; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold out | past | the King not said here | King's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | future | you | my castle | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | my dear wife | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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