The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 58
One day he came to a village, where he saw a girl who struck him as being the loveliest creature in the whole world, and as he felt a great love for her, he went up to her and said: ‘I love you with all my heart; will you be my wife?’
Who acts: brother, girl, I, you · What happens: come, see, strike, be, feel, go up · To what, where: village, girl, brother, whole world, great love, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, girl, I, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 girl | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 creature | case |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 creature | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 20 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 creature | amod |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 world | amod |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 creature | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 felt | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 felt | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 felt | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felt | nsubj |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 love | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 love | amod |
| 33 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felt | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felt | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 went | compound:prt |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 said | cc |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 went | conj |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 love | punct |
| 45 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 love | punct |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 love | nsubj |
| 47 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 said | ccomp |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 love | obj |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 heart | case |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 heart | det:predet |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 heart | nmod:poss |
| 52 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 love | obl |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 wife | punct |
| 54 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 wife | aux |
| 55 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 58 wife | nsubj |
| 56 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 wife | cop |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 wife | nmod:poss |
| 58 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | parataxis |
| 59 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 58 wife | punct |
| 60 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 58 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | brother | a village | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | brother | a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | a girl | brother | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | the whole world | as the loveliest creature | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | brother | a great love | for girl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent love=Location for she=Theme | |||
| 6 | go up | past | brother | girl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | love | present | I | you | with my heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | is a | future | you | my wife | 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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