The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 96
“I shall marry him to-morrow,” ended she; and ordered the preparations to be set on foot at once.
Who acts: feeling, I · What happens: marry, end, order, set · To what, where: boy, feeling, preparations, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 marry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | aux |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 marry | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 morrow | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ended | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ended | punct |
| 11 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ended | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 preparations | det |
| 17 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | aux:pass |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ordered | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | shall | feeling | boy | to morrow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | end | past | I not said here | feeling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the preparations | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive · passive | foot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on foot=Destination |
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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