The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 95
I have heard that men say, likewise, that it will be for the good of my kingdom for me to marry again, though my heart will never cease to be with my lost wife.
Who acts: I, men, counsel, me, heart · What happens: hear, say, be, marry, not cease, lose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, men, counsel, me), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 likewise | punct |
| 8 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 good | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 good | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 good | cop |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 good | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 good | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | obl |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | advcl |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 marry | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cease | punct |
| 26 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 cease | mark |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cease | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 cease | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 cease | advmod |
| 31 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 wife | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wife | cop |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 wife | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 wife | amod |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cease | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | likewise property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | future | counsel | of my kingdom; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | me | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not cease | future | my heart | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | my heart not said here | with my lost wife | 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: «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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