The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 73
“I would have married the sun, or the cloud, or the wind, because it was my duty, although I love the handsome young rat, and him only.
Who acts: wind, proper husband · What happens: marry, be, love · To what, where: proper husband, duty, handsome young rat
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, proper husband), 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 | _ | 5 married | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 married | aux |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cloud | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 cloud | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloud | det |
| 11 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wind | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 wind | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloud | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 duty | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 duty | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 duty | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 duty | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 duty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 love | punct |
| 23 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 25 love | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 love | nsubj |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rat | det |
| 27 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rat | amod |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rat | amod |
| 29 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 him | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 him | cc |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 love | obl |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 love | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | would · perfect · passive | the proper husband = husband | the cloud or the wind obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | wind | my duty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | the proper husband = husband | the handsome young rat | Rat obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus |
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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