The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 153

‘And when he saw us, he bade us welcome, and married us to his twelve daughters, the eldest to the eldest, and so on to me, whose bride was the youngest of all and also the prettiest.

Who acts: brother, bride · What happens: see, bade, marry, be · To what, where: us, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, bride), 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	_	5 saw	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bade	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bade	nsubj
9	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bade	obj
11	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bade	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 married	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 married	cc
14	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 married	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 daughters	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughters	nmod:poss
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 daughters	nummod
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 married	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eldest	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eldest	det
22	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 daughters	appos
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 eldest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eldest	det
25	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 eldest	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 me	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 me	cc
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 on	advmod
29	on	on	ADV	_	31 me	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 youngest	punct
33	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	34 bride	nmod:poss
34	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 youngest	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 youngest	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 youngest	det
37	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 me	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 youngest	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 prettiest	cc
41	also	also	ADV	_	43 prettiest	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 prettiest	det
43	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 youngest	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	brother	us	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
2	bade	past	brother	us		welcome property	tree rules
3	marry	past	brother not said here	us		to brother's twelve daughters	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient
4	is	past	bride			of all; young property	tree rules
5	be		bride not said here				tree rules

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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