The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 12
Now listen to the third and last: whoever brings the fairest wife home with him shall be my heir.’
Who acts: you, whoever · What happens: listen, bring, be · To what, where: fairest wife, heir
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whoever), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 listen | advmod |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 third | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 third | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 listen | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 last | cc |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 third | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 brings | punct |
| 9 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brings | nsubj |
| 10 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 listen | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 12 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brings | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 brings | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brings | obl |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 heir | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 heir | cop |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heir | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brings | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | now | to the third | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to third=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | present | whoever | the fairest wife | with father; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | shall | my heir | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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