The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 22
‘My husband, Korandon, is dead,’ she replied, ‘and if you wish it, I will marry you.’
Who acts: husband, Korandon, you, I · What happens: be, reply, wish, marry · To what, where: ‘, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Korandon, you, I), 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 | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Korandon | punct |
| 5 | Korandon | Korandon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 husband | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dead | cop |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dead | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ‘ | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 marry | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 wish | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 marry | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 marry | aux |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My husband | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Korandon | ‘ | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ‘=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | ‘ | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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