The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 98

The old toad bowed low in the water before her, and said: ‘Here is my son; you shall marry him, and live in great magnificence down under the marsh.’

Who acts: old toad, you · What happens: bow, say, be, marry, live down · To what, where: old toad, water, son, great magnificence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old toad, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toad	amod
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 toad	acl
5	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bowed	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Here	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Here	punct
16	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	ccomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Here	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 marry	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 marry	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 marry	aux
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marry	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 live	cc
27	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 marry	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 magnificence	case
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 magnificence	amod
30	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl
31	down	down	ADP	_	27 live	compound:prt
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 marsh	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 marsh	det
34	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 marry	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	participle		the old toad not said here	the water	before THUMBELINA	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the old toad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present					here property	tree rules
4	marry	shall	you	son				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	live down	present	you not said here		great magnificence		under the marsh	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in magnificence=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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