The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 91
“And what difference will our marriage make?”
Who acts: difference, our · What happens: make, marry
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference, our), 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 | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 make | obj |
| 4 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | future | difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product | |||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | our | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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