The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 40
For you shall be married the day that I am laid in my grave.’
What happens: marry, lay · To what, where: you, day, grave
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: 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 married | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 laid | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 laid | aux:pass |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 grave | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grave | nmod:poss |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | shall · passive | you | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present · passive | the day | my grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
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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