The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 48
That faithless Princess who would have married you is promised to me.
What happens: marry, promise · To what, where: faithless Princess, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 married | aux |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 married | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 promised | aux:pass |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 promised | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | would · perfect · passive | that faithless Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present · passive | that faithless Princess | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to i=Goal |
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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