Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 81
They all said: "You didn't win her just by taking the shoe off her foot; you'll have to win her by the point of the sword; you'll have to fight for her with us before you can call her your own."
Who acts: princes, You · What happens: say, not win, take, have, win, fight · To what, where: lady, shoe, foot, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, You), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 win | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 win | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 win | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 win | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 win | advmod |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 win | obj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 win | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 taking | mark |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 win | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoe | det |
| 15 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 foot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 win | mark |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 have | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 win | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 point | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 point | det |
| 28 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sword | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sword | det |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 point | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 fight | mark |
| 37 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 have | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fight | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 us | case |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 fight | obl |
| 42 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 45 call | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 call | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 call | aux |
| 45 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 fight | advcl |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 call | obj |
| 47 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 own | nmod:poss |
| 48 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 call | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | princes = prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not win in a quote | past · do-support | You | lady | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | gerund | You not said here | the shoe | lady's foot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme off foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | lady | by the point of the sword | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | for lady; with us | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | call in a quote | can | you | lady | own property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 9 | point in a quote | the sword | nom point «cognition 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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