The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 84
They love one another, and only your consent to their marriage is wanting to make them perfectly happy.”
Who acts: fireworks, consent, your · What happens: love, want, make, consent, marry · To what, where: one, fireworks
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (fireworks, consent, your), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanting | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanting | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 consent | advmod |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 consent | nmod:poss |
| 9 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanting | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consent | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wanting | aux |
| 14 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 love | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanting | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 19 happy | advmod |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | fireworks = firework | one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | present · progressive | your consent to fireworks's marriage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | your consent to fireworks's marriage not said here | fireworks = firework | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | consent | your | to fireworks's marriage | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 5 | marry | fireworks = firework | nom marriage «state 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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