The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 59

‘Wherefore, O Prince Ivan—my husband dear shalt thou be!—wherefore hast thou come hither?’

Who acts: thou · What happens: be, come

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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	_	2 Wherefore	punct
2	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	19 come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wherefore	punct
4	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivan	compound
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ivan	compound
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wherefore	nsubj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 dear	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dear	nsubj
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Wherefore	parataxis
11	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 be	nsubj
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dear	conj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Wherefore	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	19 come	advmod
17	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	hither	hither	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	shall	thou						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	thou					hither, wherefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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