The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 67
“It will be owing to yourself only, my Lord Marquis, if you are not my son-in-law.”
Who acts: estate, you · What happens: owe, not be · To what, where: Lord, yourself, law
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (estate, 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 owing | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 owing | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 owing | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 owing | aux |
| 5 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 yourself | case |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 owing | obl |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 owing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lord | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 owing | obl |
| 12 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lord | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 law | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 law | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 law | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 law | advmod |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 law | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owing | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owing | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 owing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe in a quote | future · progressive | estate | my Lord | yourself | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to yourself=Goal | |||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | law | 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 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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