The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 4
Now all the request I ask of you is that you will build a tower in an island in the sea, wherein you will keep your three sons until they are come of age and fit to do for themselves; so that they may not be under the power or jurisdiction of any other woman.
Who acts: I, you, sons · What happens: ask, be, keep, come, fit, do · To what, where: request, island, three sons, sons, power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. 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, sons), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 request | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 request | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 request | det |
| 4 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 build | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 build | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 build | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 build | aux |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tower | det |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 island | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 island | det |
| 18 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keep | punct |
| 23 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 keep | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 keep | aux |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 build | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sons | nmod:poss |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 sons | nummod |
| 29 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 keep | obj |
| 30 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux:pass |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 keep | advcl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 age | case |
| 35 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fit | cc |
| 37 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 do | mark |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 fit | xcomp |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 themselves | case |
| 41 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 do | obl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 power | punct |
| 43 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 51 power | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 so | fixed |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 power | nsubj |
| 46 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 power | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 power | advmod |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 power | cop |
| 49 | under | under | ADP | _ | 51 power | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 power | det |
| 51 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obl |
| 52 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 jurisdiction | cc |
| 53 | jurisdiction | jurisdiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 power | conj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 woman | case |
| 55 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 57 woman | det |
| 56 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 woman | amod |
| 57 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 jurisdiction | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | all request | of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | a island | in the sea; build property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | keep | future | you | your three sons | wherein property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | present · passive | sons = son | of age | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fit | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | for sons = son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is | may | sons = son | the power or jurisdiction of any other woman | 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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