The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 37
Take, therefore, my daughter for your wife; but as she is still so young, do not let the marriage be celebrated for another year.’
Who acts: you, daughter, marriage · What happens: take, be, not let, celebrate · To what, where: daughter, marriage
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter, marriage), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 young | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 young | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 young | cop |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 young | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 young | advmod |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 let | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 young | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 let | advmod |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 marriage | det |
| 23 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 let | obj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 25 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 let | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 celebrated | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my daughter for your wife | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | daughter | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not let | infinitive · do-support | the marriage | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | celebrate | infinitive · passive | the marriage not said here | year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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