The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 120
‘I know your errand, but you shall get no bride until I have got a mate and slept by her side.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, get, sleep · To what, where: errand, bride, mate
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. 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), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 errand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 bride | det |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 get | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mate | det |
| 18 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 slept | cc |
| 20 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 got | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slept | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | your errand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer errand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | shall | you | no bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | I | a mate | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sleep | participle | I not said here | by bride's side | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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