The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 63
‘You will not need to do that,’ answered the old woman, ‘you have only got to marry me, and you will soon be free.’
Who acts: You · What happens: not need, do, answer, get, marry, be · To what, where: that, old woman, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 need | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 got | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 free | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 free | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 free | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 free | aux |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 free | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 free | cop |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | future | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the old woman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | future | you | free, soon 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 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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