The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 62
It would be much better if you would marry, and I have collected here the portraits of the most beautiful women in the world of a rank equal to your own.
Who acts: room, you, I · What happens: be, marry, collect, portray · To what, where: portraits, world, beautiful women
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, you, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | aux |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 collected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 collected | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 collected | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 collected | aux |
| 14 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 better | parataxis |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 collected | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 portraits | det |
| 17 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 collected | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 women | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 women | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 women | amod |
| 22 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 portraits | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collected | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rank | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rank | det |
| 28 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 world | nmod |
| 29 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rank | amod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 own | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 equal | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | room | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry a condition, not said to happen | would | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | collect | present · perfect | I | the portraits of the beautiful women | the world of a rank; here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme | |||
| 4 | portray | the beautiful women | nom portrait «communication 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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