The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 109
At the right of the bridge there must be a church, with five golden cupolas; in this church your son shall be wedded to my daughter, and we will keep the wedding festivities in the new castle.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, wed, keep · To what, where: church, right, son, wedding festivities, new castle
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, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 church | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 be | expl |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 church | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cupolas | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cupolas | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cupolas | nummod |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cupolas | amod |
| 16 | cupolas | cupola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 church | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 wedded | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 church | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wedded | obl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wedded | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 wedded | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wedded | aux:pass |
| 25 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 church | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 daughter | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wedded | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 keep | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 keep | cc |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 keep | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 keep | aux |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wedded | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 festivities | det |
| 35 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 festivities | compound |
| 36 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keep | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 castle | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 castle | det |
| 39 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 castle | amod |
| 40 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keep | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | a church and five golden cupolas | the right of the bridge | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wed | shall · passive | your son | this church | to my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | keep | future | we | the wedding festivities | the new castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent festivity=Theme in castle=Location |
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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