The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 174
The marriage, therefore, must take place this evening.”
Who acts: marriage · What happens: take · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 marriage | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 marriage | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 marriage | punct |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | the marriage | place | evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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