The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 33
I am the Queen of the Comets, and can bring you to great honour if you will marry me.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, bring, marry · To what, where: Queen, you, great honour, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Queen | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Queen | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Comets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Comets | det |
| 7 | Comets | Comet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Queen | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 Queen | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 honour | amod |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 marry | aux |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bring | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the Queen | of the Comets | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | can | you | great honour | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to honour=Destination | ||||
| 3 | marry a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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