The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 30
‘You have passed your royal word, and cannot go back from it Yet grant me this grace, and let seven years and seven months go by before you wed me.
Who acts: You, word, seven months, your · What happens: pass, not go back, grant, let, go, wed · To what, where: royal word, grace, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, word, seven months, your), 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 passed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 passed | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 grant | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | nsubj |
| 16 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 grant | advmod |
| 17 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | obj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 grace | det |
| 20 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grant | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 24 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 let | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 27 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 months | nummod |
| 28 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 go | nsubj |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | conj |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 33 wed | mark |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 wed | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 wed | nsubj |
| 33 | wed | wed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | advcl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 wed | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect | You | your royal word | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not go back | can | You not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grant | present | word | this grace | me | yet | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal grace=Theme | ||
| 4 | let | infinitive | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | present | seven months | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wed | present | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 7 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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