English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 20
By day a bird, by night a prince, I will always be by your side as a husband, dear.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be
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 (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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 day | case |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 side | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 side | aux |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 side | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 side | cop |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod:poss |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 husband | det |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dear | punct |
| 22 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 husband | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | day | by your side; as a husband; always property | 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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