The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 202
And one thing more: bring back my faithless wife, and lead her into the women’s chamber.’
What happens: bring back, lea · To what, where: faithless wife, Paradise, chamber
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 more | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thing | nummod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | parataxis |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lead | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lead | cc |
| 13 | lead | lea | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lead | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 chamber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 women | case |
| 19 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lead | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | infinitive | my faithless wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||||
| 2 | lea | past | Paradise | the women's chamber | tree rules |
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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