Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 74

The daughter of the king of France is to be married to-night, the handsomest woman that the sun ever saw, and we must do our best to bring her with us; if we're only able to carry her off; and you must come with us that we may be able to put the young girl up behind you on the horse, when we'll be bringing her away, for it's not lawful for us to put her sitting behind ourselves.

Who acts: sun, we, you, rath, us · What happens: marry, see, do, bring, be, carry off · To what, where: daughter, handsomest woman, best, sun, young girl

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, we, you, rath), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 married	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughter	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 France	case
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 married	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 married	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 married	aux:pass
11	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 married	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	appos
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 saw	advmod
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 married	conj
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 best	nmod:poss
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 do	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 bring	mark
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 best	csubj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 us	case
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 able	punct
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 able	mark
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 able	nsubj
39	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 able	cop
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 able	advmod
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 do	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 carry	mark
43	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 carry	obj
45	off	off	ADP	_	43 carry	compound:prt
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 come	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 come	cc
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 come	nsubj
49	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 come	aux
50	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 married	conj
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 us	case
52	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 come	obl
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 able	mark
54	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 able	nsubj
55	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 able	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 able	cop
57	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 come	advcl
58	to	to	PART	_	59 put	mark
59	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 able	xcomp
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 girl	det
61	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 girl	amod
62	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 put	obj
63	up	up	ADV	_	59 put	advmod
64	behind	behind	ADP	_	65 you	case
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 put	obl
66	on	on	ADP	_	68 horse	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 horse	det
68	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 put	obl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 bringing	punct
70	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	74 bringing	advmod
71	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	74 bringing	nsubj
72	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 bringing	aux
73	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	74 bringing	aux
74	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 come	advcl
75	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 bringing	obj
76	away	away	ADV	_	74 bringing	advmod
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 lawful	punct
78	for	for	SCONJ	_	82 lawful	mark
79	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 lawful	nsubj
80	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	82 lawful	cop
81	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	82 lawful	advmod
82	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 bringing	conj
83	for	for	SCONJ	_	86 put	mark
84	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	86 put	nsubj
85	to	to	PART	_	86 put	mark
86	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	82 lawful	advcl
87	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 put	obj
88	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	86 put	xcomp
89	behind	behind	ADP	_	90 ourselves	case
90	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	88 sitting	obl
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	present · passive		the daughter of the king of France		night		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	see	past	the sun	the handsomest woman not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	do	must	we	our best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	bring	to-infinitive			sun		with us	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
5	is a condition, not said to happen	present	we				able property	tree rules
6	carry off	to-infinitive	we not said here	sun				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	come	must	you				with us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	may	we				able property	tree rules
9	put	to-infinitive	we not said here	the young girl			behind you; on the horse	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme on horse=Destination
10	bring away	future · progressive	we		sun		away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
11	not is	present	rath				lawful property	tree rules
12	put	to-infinitive	us	sun				tree rules
13	sit	gerund	us not said here				behind ourselves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind ourselves=Location

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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