The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 91

‘She is an ill-natured little cat, and the man that marries her will find that it is she who will hold the reins and drive the horse.’

Who acts: Tephany, man, cat · What happens: be, marry, find, drive · To what, where: ill natured little cat, Tephany, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany, man, cat), 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	_	9 cat	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cat	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct
7	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 marries	nsubj
15	marries	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 marries	obj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cat	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 hold	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hold	cop
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hold	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hold	aux
25	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 find	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reins	det
27	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hold	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drive	cc
29	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hold	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drive	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tephany	a ill natured little cat		tree rules
2	marry	present	the man	Tephany		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	find	future	the man			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is	present	cat		hold property	tree rules
5	drive	infinitive	cat not said here	the horse		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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