English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 19
“Never, never,” said the prince; “be my wife and I'll be yours for ever.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not say, be · To what, where: wife, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 never | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 never | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wife | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yours | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 yours | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 yours | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 yours | cop |
| 19 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | my wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | the prince = prince | yours | 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: «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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