The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 71
It must be an enchanted maiden, and I will marry her and no other.'
Who acts: other, I · What happens: enchant, be, marry · To what, where: enchanted maiden, horse
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, 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 | 6 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 maiden | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 maiden | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 marry | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 marry | aux |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 maiden | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 other | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 marry | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | must | other | a enchanted maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | future | I | horse | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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