The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 79
‘It shall stay with you as long as you live, and shall want for nothing,’ the King promised.
Who acts: hand, you, King · What happens: stay, live, want, promise
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 (hand, you, King), 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 | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stay | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 want | cc |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 want | aux |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 nothing | case |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 want | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 promised | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 22 promised | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 promised | nsubj |
| 22 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | shall | hand | with you; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | want | shall | hand not said here | for nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | the King | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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