The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 100
You, O King, have a lovely daughter to give in marriage.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, give · To what, where: lovely daughter, marriage
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 3 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 You | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 You | punct |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 daughter | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 marriage | case |
| 13 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | a lovely daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | You not said here | a lovely daughter not said here | marriage | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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