The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 89
Bowing low before the fairest in the world, he spoke: ‘Noble lady, will you do me the honour to become my wife?’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: bow, speak, do, become · To what, where: fairest, Noble lady, honour, me, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | Bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spoke | advcl |
| 2 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Bowing | advmod |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 fairest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairest | det |
| 5 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Bowing | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fairest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bowing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 lady | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lady | punct |
| 14 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lady | amod |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lady | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 honour | det |
| 22 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 become | mark |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | advcl |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | xcomp |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | gerund | king not said here | the fairest | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fair=Location | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | king | Noble lady | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | future | you | the honour | me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | you not said here | my wife | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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