The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 86
But the King said, ‘You are my dear bride, and we will never be separated from one another.’
Who acts: King, You · What happens: say, be, not separate · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bride | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 11 bride | case |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bride | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bride | cop |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bride | amod |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 separated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 separated | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 separated | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 separated | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 separated | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 separated | aux:pass |
| 18 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 separated | obl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | fixed |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | You | ‘ my dear bride | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not separate | future · passive | we | from one | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from one=Co-Patient |
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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