The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 43
‘I am married to the Crab, and him only will I have.’
Who acts: husband · What happens: marry, have · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Crab | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Crab | det |
| 7 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 have | advmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 married | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present · passive | I | to the Crab | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to crab=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | future | husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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