The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 104

The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, ‘Come! rather than let your wife die you shall fetch her some rampion, no matter the cost.’

Who acts: man, wife, you · What happens: love, think, come, let, die, fetch · To what, where: dearly, house, rampion, wife

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dearly	nmod:poss
7	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dearly	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
14	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	conj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
16	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 let	cc
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 rather	fixed
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 die	nsubj
21	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 let	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 fetch	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fetch	aux
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 die	ccomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fetch	obj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 rampion	det
27	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fetch	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 matter	punct
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 matter	det
30	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rampion	appos
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cost	det
32	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 matter	nmod:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	love	past	the man	wife's dearly		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	participle	the man not said here		house	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	infinitive	the man not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	infinitive	the man not said here			tree rules
5	die	present	your wife			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	fetch	shall	you	some rampion	wife	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary rampion=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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