The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 38

And though he will mourn for me long--I know that well--yet in time they will persuade him to take a wife, and she will be young and fair, and he will forget me.'

Who acts: father, I, hands, wife · What happens: mourn, know, persuade, take, be, forget · To what, where: father, wife, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, hands, wife), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 mourn	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 mourn	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mourn	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mourn	aux
5	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 mourn	obl
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 mourn	advmod
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mourn	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 well	mark
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 know	ccomp
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 persuade	punct
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 persuade	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 persuade	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 persuade	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 persuade	aux
20	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 persuade	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 persuade	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wife	det
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 young	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 young	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 young	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 young	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 young	cop
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mourn	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fair	cc
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 young	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forget	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 forget	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forget	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 forget	aux
38	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mourn	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 forget	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mourn	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 mourn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	future	father				for me; long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for i=Attribute
2	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	persuade	future	hands = hand	father		time		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	take	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here		a wife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
5	is	future	wife				young property	tree rules
6	be		wife not said here					tree rules
7	forget	future	father	me				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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