The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 89

‘I will give thee a sword which is such a sword that it can conquer a whole army, let it be ever so great,’ replied the woman.

Who acts: I, sword, eye · What happens: give, be, conquer, let, reply · To what, where: sword, thee, whole army, eye, woman

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sword, eye), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sword	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sword	cop
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 sword	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sword	det
12	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sword	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 conquer	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 conquer	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 conquer	aux
16	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sword	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 army	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 army	amod
19	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 conquer	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 great	advmod
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 great	advmod
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 be	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 replied	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 replied	punct
29	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 replied	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	a sword and such sword	thee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient sword=Theme
2	is a	present	a sword and such sword	such sword			tree rules
3	conquer	can	eye	a whole army			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient
4	let	infinitive	I not said here	eye			tree rules
5	be	infinitive	eye not said here			great property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reply speech: assert	past		the woman			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic

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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