The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 228
If he sees you he will certainly wish to marry you.’
Who acts: Frisk · What happens: see, wish, marry · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 sees | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sees | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 wish | advmod |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | Frisk | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wish | future | Frisk | certainly property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Frisk not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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