The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 8
‘I have a daughter,’ said the old woman, ‘who is so beautiful that she has not her equal in the world, and is well fitted to be your wife; if you will make her lady-queen I will show you the way out of the wood.’
Who acts: I, old woman, woman, you, lady queen · What happens: have, say, be, fit, make, show · To what, where: daughter, wife, way, you, wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old woman, woman, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 has | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 equal | advmod |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 equal | nmod:poss |
| 23 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 has | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 equal | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fitted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fitted | cc |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fitted | aux:pass |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 fitted | advmod |
| 31 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wife | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wife | cop |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fitted | advcl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 make | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 make | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | aux |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 queen | nmod:poss |
| 42 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 queen | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 lady | punct |
| 44 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 show | nsubj |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 show | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 show | aux |
| 47 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 make | xcomp |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 show | iobj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 way | det |
| 50 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 show | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 54 wood | case |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 wood | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 wood | det |
| 54 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 show | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 56 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | woman | equal property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fit | present · passive | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | your wife | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make a condition, not said to happen | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | show | future | woman's lady queen | the way | you | the wood | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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