English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 7
Long may you wear them, my lady, my lady, Long may you wear them, my lady.
Who acts: you, Long · What happens: wear · To what, where: breeches
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Long), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wear | advcl |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lady | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lady | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lady | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lady | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wear | punct |
| 13 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wear | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wear | nsubj |
| 16 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wear | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wear | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lady | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lady | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wear | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | may | you | breeches = breech | my lady and my lady obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | |||
| 2 | wear | may | Long | breeches = breech | my lady obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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