The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 112
That she did not succeed in doing; so now, my dear Felicia, if you will be married to my son with this silver ring your future happiness is certain.
Who acts: That, future happiness · What happens: not succeed, do, marry, ring, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, future happiness), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 succeed | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 succeed | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 succeed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 succeed | advmod |
| 5 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 doing | mark |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 succeed | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 now | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 now | advmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 succeed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Felicia | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Felicia | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Felicia | amod |
| 14 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 now | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 married | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 succeed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 silver | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 silver | det |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod |
| 27 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 married | conj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 29 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 happiness | compound |
| 30 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 certain | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 certain | cop |
| 32 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ring | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not succeed | past · do-support | That | now | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | That not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | marry a condition, not said to happen | future · passive | you | to my son with this silver | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | ring | infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | your future happiness | certain property | 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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