The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 19
Below in the stable is a bear with whom you must spend the night, and if when I get up in the morning I find you still alive you shall marry me.’
Who acts: stable, you, I · What happens: be, spend, get up, find, marry · To what, where: bear, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stable, you, 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 | Below | below | ADV | _ | 4 stable | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 stable | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stable | det |
| 4 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bear | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 spend | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 spend | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 spend | aux |
| 12 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bear | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spend | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 get | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 get | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spend | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 alive | advmod |
| 29 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 find | xcomp |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 marry | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 marry | aux |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 alive | ccomp |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 marry | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bear | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stable | a bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spend | must | you | night | with a bear | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | get up a condition, not said to happen | present | I | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | find | present | I | you | alive property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 5 | marry | shall | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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