The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 72
But Iliane declares that, before she marries her captor, he must bring her, as a present, the whole stud of mares which belong to her.
Who acts: Iliane, brother, mares · What happens: declare, marry, bring, belong · To what, where: that, captor, Iliane
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iliane, brother, mares), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 declares | cc |
| 2 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 declares | nsubj |
| 3 | declares | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 declares | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 marries | punct |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 marries | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 marries | nsubj |
| 8 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 declares | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 captor | nmod:poss |
| 10 | captor | captor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marries | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 marries | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 present | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 present | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 present | det |
| 19 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stud | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stud | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stud | amod |
| 23 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 present | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mares | case |
| 25 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stud | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 belong | nsubj |
| 27 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mares | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 belong | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | Iliane | that | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | marry | present | Iliane | Iliane's captor | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captor=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | must | brother | Iliane | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | belong | present | mares | Iliane | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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