The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 84
'You have betrothed me already to a bride I can never love!' cried he; 'but if you will not consent to break off the match, and ask for the hand of the princess Desiree, I shall die of misery, thankful to be alive no longer.'
Who acts: You, I, Tulip · What happens: betroth, not love, cry, not consent, break off, ask · To what, where: me, bride, match
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (You, I, Tulip), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 betrothed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothed | aux |
| 4 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 betrothed | obj |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 betrothed | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bride | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betrothed | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 love | advmod |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bride | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 consent | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 consent | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 consent | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 consent | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 consent | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 consent | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 consent | advmod |
| 25 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cried | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 break | mark |
| 27 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 consent | xcomp |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 break | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 match | det |
| 30 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 break | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ask | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ask | cc |
| 33 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 consent | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hand | det |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ask | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 princess | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hand | nmod |
| 40 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 princess | appos |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 die | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 die | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 die | aux |
| 44 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 consent | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 misery | case |
| 46 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 die | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 thankful | punct |
| 48 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 misery | amod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 alive | mark |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 alive | cop |
| 51 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 die | advcl |
| 52 | no | no | ADV | _ | 53 longer | advmod |
| 53 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 alive | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 consent | punct |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 consent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | present · perfect | You | me | a bride | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bride=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not love | can | I | a bride not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Tulip | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not consent a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break off | to-infinitive | you not said here | the match | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer match=Patient | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for the hand of the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | die | shall | I | of misery | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of misery=Causer | ||||
| 8 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | alive, long property | 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 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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