The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 43

‘You are the poorest and yet the richest,’ said he: ‘come with me, you shall be my bride.’

Who acts: You, poorest, son · What happens: be, say, come · To what, where: bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, poorest, son), 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 poorest	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 poorest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poorest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poorest	det
5	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 said	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 richest	cc
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 richest	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 richest	det
9	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 poorest	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 richest	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 poorest	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bride	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 bride	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bride	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 bride	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bride	nmod:poss
24	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			poor property	tree rules
2	be		You not said here		yet		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the poorest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	infinitive	son			with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	shall	you	my bride			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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