The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 12

‘If one of those young men should make me his wife, I would bake him a loaf of bread which should keep him young and brave for ever.’

Who acts: one, I, loaf · What happens: make, bake, keep · To what, where: wife, me, loaf, emperor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, loaf), 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	_	9 make	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 make	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 men	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bake	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bake	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bake	aux
16	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bake	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 loaf	det
19	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bake	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bread	case
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loaf	nmod
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 keep	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 keep	aux
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 loaf	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 keep	obj
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keep	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brave	cc
28	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 young	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 young	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	should	one of that young men	emperor's wife	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary wife=Product
2	bake	would	I	a loaf of bread	emperor		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary loaf=Product
3	keep	should	a loaf of bread	emperor		young property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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