The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 55
“Yes,” said she, quite pleased, “I am quite ready to marry you whenever you like.”
Who acts: Signy, you · What happens: say, be, marry, like · To what, where: you · 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 (Signy, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 ready | advmod |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pleased | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 marry | mark |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | obj |
| 19 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 like | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Signy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Signy | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | Signy not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | like in a quote | present | you | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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