The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 118
If, indeed, I must marry, let me travel and find a wife for myself.'
Who acts: I, me · What happens: marry, let, travel, find · To what, where: me, wife
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 indeed | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 marry | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 travel | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 myself | case |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 find | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | must | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | infinitive | me not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | me not said here | a wife | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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