The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 98
And when I return I shall expect you to be ready to marry me.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: return, expect, be, marry · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | _ | 7 expect | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 return | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 return | nsubj |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 expect | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 expect | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 expect | aux |
| 7 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 expect | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ready | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ready | cop |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expect | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expect | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | expect | shall | I | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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