The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 40
I am now obliged, whether I like or no, to go a three days’ journey to the witch’s castle, and marry her daughter.
Who acts: I, three days · What happens: oblige, like, go, marry, journey · To what, where: I, journey, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, three days), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 obliged | advmod |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 like | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | parataxis |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 10 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 days | det |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 16 days | case |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 witch | det |
| 21 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 castle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 witch | case |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 marry | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 marry | cc |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marry | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | I | now | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | a three days's journey | to the witch's castle | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme | |||
| 4 | marry | infinitive | joy's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||||
| 5 | journey | a three days | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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