The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 79
“Once I am married to the king’s son I shall be better off than now.
Who acts: witch · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: witch
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 (witch), 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 | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 married | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 better | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 better | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 better | cop |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 better | compound:prt |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 now | case |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 better | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | present · passive | the witch = witch | to the king's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | the witch = witch | good property | tree rules |
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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