The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 90
Then the young man thanked the maiden for all she had done for him, and said she should be his wife and none other.
Who acts: young man, giant · What happens: thank, do, say, be · To what, where: maiden, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, giant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | nsubj |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thanked | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 maiden | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 wife | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wife | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 none | cc |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 wife | conj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wife | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the young man | the maiden | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | giant | for man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | should | giant | man's wife | 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 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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