The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 39
One shall be your bridal shift, and the other shall be my shroud.
Who acts: One, other · What happens: be · To what, where: bridal shift, shroud
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 shift | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 shift | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shift | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shift | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shift | amod |
| 6 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shroud | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shroud | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shroud | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 shroud | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shroud | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shroud | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shift | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | One | your bridal shift and my shroud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | shall | the other | my shroud | 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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