The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 140
But, as her dowry, I shall only give so much as one man can carry away.’
Who acts: dowry, one man · What happens: give, carry away · To what, where: much
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dowry, one man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dowry | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 dowry | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dowry | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dowry | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 man | nummod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | aux |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 much | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 carry | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | Daughter's dowry | much | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry away | can | one man | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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