Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 39
But there is one condition which always attaches to the marriage of a mortal with a fairy, and that is that she can only live with you for nine years.
Who acts: one condition, that · What happens: be, attach, marry · To what, where: mortal
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one condition, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 condition | nummod |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 attaches | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 attaches | advmod |
| 8 | attaches | attach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 condition | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 marriage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 marriage | det |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attaches | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mortal | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mortal | det |
| 14 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marriage | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 fairy | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fairy | det |
| 17 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attaches | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 live | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | cop |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 live | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 live | advmod |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 condition | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 live | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 years | case |
| 30 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one condition | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attach | present | one condition | to the marriage of a mortal; with a fairy; always property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to marriage=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | can · present | that | year | with you; condition nsubj; live property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | marry | a mortal | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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