The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 8

'If I have to wait three months before I can marry the princess I shall die!' was all this spoilt boy would say; and at length the king, in despair, resolved to send a fresh embassy to Desiree's father to implore him to permit the marriage to be celebrated at once. '

Who acts: I, spoilt boy · What happens: wait, marry, die, be, resolve, send · To what, where: princess, fresh embassy, father, Desiree, marriage

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spoilt boy), 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	_	6 wait	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wait	obl:unmarked
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 marry	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 marry	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 marry	aux
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wait	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marry	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 princess	acl:relcl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 say	cop
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 boy	det:predet
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 boy	det
23	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wait	parataxis
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 length	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 length	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 length	case
30	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 length	nmod:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 despair	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 despair	case
35	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 length	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 resolved	punct
37	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 length	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 send	mark
39	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 resolved	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 embassy	det
41	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 embassy	amod
42	embassy	embassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 send	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 father	case
44	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 father	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 Desiree	case
46	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 send	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 implore	mark
48	implore	implore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 send	advcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 implore	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 permit	mark
51	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 implore	advcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 marriage	det
53	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 permit	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	56 celebrated	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 celebrated	aux:pass
56	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 marriage	acl
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 once	case
58	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	56 celebrated	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
60	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present				month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	can	I	the princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	die	shall	I	the princess not said here				tree rules
4	is	would · past	all spoilt boy				say property	tree rules
5	resolve	participle						tree rules
6	send	to-infinitive		a fresh embassy	Desiree's father			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme to father=Destination
7	implore	to-infinitive			Desiree			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	permit	to-infinitive		the marriage				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
9	celebrate	to-infinitive · passive		the marriage not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»

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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