The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 91

Then it may be that I shall succeed, and if I return with my purpose fulfilled I will marry you according to the law, and take you to my own country, and we will spend the rest of our lives together in pleasure and good companionship.

Who acts: journey, I, we, my · What happens: be, return, fulfil, marry, accord, take · To what, where: you, own country, rest, pleasure

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, I, we, my), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 succeed	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 succeed	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 succeed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 succeed	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 succeed	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 succeed	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 succeed	aux
8	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 marry	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 return	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 return	nsubj
13	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 purpose	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 purpose	nmod:poss
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	obl
17	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 return	xcomp
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 succeed	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 marry	obj
22	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 law	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 according	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 law	det
25	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 succeed	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 take	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 country	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 country	amod
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spend	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spend	cc
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 spend	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 spend	aux
38	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 succeed	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rest	det
40	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spend	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 lives	case
42	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 lives	nmod:poss
43	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 rest	nmod
44	together	together	ADV	_	38 spend	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 pleasure	case
46	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spend	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 companionship	cc
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 companionship	amod
49	companionship	companionship	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pleasure	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 succeed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	shall	journey			then	succeed property	tree rules
2	return a condition, not said to happen	present	I				with my purpose	tree rules
3	fulfil	participle	I not said here					tree rules
4	marry	future	I	you			accord the law	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	take	infinitive	journey not said here	you	my own country			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination
7	spend	future	we	the rest of our lives	pleasure and good companionship		together property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
8	purpose		my					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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