The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 59
And the girl liked him so much that she put her hand in his and replied: ‘Yes, I will be your wife, and will be true to you as long as I live.’
Who acts: girl, I · What happens: like, put, reply, be, live · To what, where: brother, hand, wife, you
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 (girl, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 liked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 liked | nsubj |
| 4 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liked | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 liked | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 liked | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 his | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 liked | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 wife | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 wife | punct |
| 19 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 25 wife | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yes | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 wife | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wife | cop |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 true | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 true | cc |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 true | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 true | cop |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 liked | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 true | obl |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 long | advmod |
| 34 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 true | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 live | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 live | nsubj |
| 37 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 long | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | the girl | brother | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | past | girl | girl's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset his=Goal | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | future | I | your wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | future | you | long, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | present | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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