The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 13
“You shall marry the Princess because you have been able to break the enchantment, but I will have my revenge.
Who acts: You, King, my · What happens: marry, be, break, have, revenge · To what, where: Princess, enchantment, revenge
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, King, my), 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 | _ | 4 marry | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | aux |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marry | obj |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 marry | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 break | mark |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 enchantment | det |
| 15 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 marry | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 22 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | shall | You | the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the enchantment | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | the King = king | my revenge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 5 | revenge in a quote | my | nom revenge «act 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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