The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 69

‘For,’ says he, ‘I see there is no use in thinking of it till the youngest gets her three crowns, and is married with the others.

Who acts: I, use, youngest · What happens: say, see, be, think, get, marry · To what, where: king, three crowns, clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, use, youngest), 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 says	punct
2	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 says	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 thinking	mark
16	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 use	acl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thinking	obl
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 gets	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youngest	det
21	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 gets	nsubj
22	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thinking	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gets	obj
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 crowns	nummod
25	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gets	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 married	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 married	cc
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 married	aux:pass
29	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 says	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 others	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 others	det
32	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 married	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		king				tree rules
2	see	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	present	no use			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	no use not said here				of use	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	present	the youngest	three crowns	clerk			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary crown=Theme
6	marry	present · passive					with the others	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: with other=Co-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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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