The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 95
When you marry me, I will give you this ring as a marriage gift, and it will make you the happiest of mortal men.
Who acts: you, I, ring · What happens: marry, give, make · To what, where: me, ring, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, ring), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 marry | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 marry | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 marry | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ring | det |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 gift | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gift | det |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gift | compound |
| 15 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ring | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 happiest | det |
| 23 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 make | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 25 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 men | amod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 happiest | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | this ring | you | as a marriage gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ring=Theme | ||
| 3 | make | future | ring | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
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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