The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 54

He often went to visit the witch, whom he believed to be Princess Signy, and one day he asked: “Don’t you think we might be married before long?”

Who acts: Ring, you · What happens: go, visit, believe, be, ask, not think · To what, where: witch, Princess Signy, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believed	punct
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 believed	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believed	nsubj
11	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 witch	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	15 Signy	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 Signy	cop
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Signy	compound
15	Signy	Signy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 believed	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obl:unmarked
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 married	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 married	punct
24	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 married	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 think	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
27	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 married	advcl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 married	nsubj:pass
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 married	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 married	aux:pass
31	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 asked	ccomp
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 long	case
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 married	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 married	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ring			often property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	visit	to-infinitive	Ring not said here	the witch			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-Agent
3	believe	past	Ring	the witch			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
4	is a	to-infinitive		Princess Signy			tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	past	Ring		day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not think speech: other in a quote	present	you				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	marry in a quote	might · infinitive · passive · do-support		we	before long		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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