The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 113
Do you think him handsome and amiable enough to be willing to marry him?”
Who acts: you · What happens: think, be, marry · To what, where: supper
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 (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | obj |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 amiable | cc |
| 7 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 handsome | conj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 handsome | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 willing | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 willing | cop |
| 11 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 handsome | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 willing | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | supper | handsome property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | supper | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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