The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 51
I have fallen in love with what I can never marry, and I must get on as best I can.'
Who acts: I · What happens: fall, not marry, get on · To what, where: love
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fallen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fallen | aux |
| 3 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 love | case |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fallen | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 fallen | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 marry | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 marry | advmod |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fallen | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 best | case |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 get | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fallen | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · perfect | I | love | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||||
| 2 | not marry | can | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | get on | must | I | as best | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as good=Attribute |
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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