The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 93
She only thought you a poor knight, and agreed that as you wished it, the marriage should be kept secret.
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: think, agree, wish, keep · To what, where: you, that, length, marriage
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 (girl, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 agreed | cc |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 agreed | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 wished | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 agreed | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kept | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 marriage | det |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kept | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 kept | aux:pass |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wished | parataxis |
| 22 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kept | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | girl | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme knight=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | that | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | you | length | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | should · passive | the marriage | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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