The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 161
Take your bride, and may you both live long and happily together!’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, live · To what, where: bride
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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bride | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 live | cc |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 8 | both | both | ADV | _ | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 live | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 together | cc |
| 12 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 13 together | advmod |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 long | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your bride | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination | ||||
| 2 | live | may | you | both, long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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