The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 32
‘YOUR daughter shall live to be your delight; HER daughter shall die this very night.’
Who acts: daughter · What happens: live, be, die · To what, where: delight
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 2 | YOUR | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 delight | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 delight | cop |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 delight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 11 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 die | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 live | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 night | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 night | advmod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 die | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | shall | YOUR daughter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | YOUR daughter not said here | your delight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | shall | mother's daughter | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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