The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 47
“Then you shall be my husband,” answered the fairy, “and I will be your wife.
Who acts: fairy, husband · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: husband, fairy, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 husband | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 husband | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 husband | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairy | det |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wife | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 wife | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wife | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wife | cop |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fairy | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | shall | the fairy and your wife = fairy | my husband | then | my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | my husband | the fairy and your wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fairy=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | my husband = husband | your wife | your nmod:poss | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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