The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 60

‘Oh! wherever you like, sire,’ she answered, ‘but I will never marry any one else.’

Who acts: you, sister, I · What happens: like, answer, not marry · To what, where: sire, one

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 (you, sister, I), 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	_	6 like	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 like	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	6 like	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sire	punct
8	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 marry	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 marry	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 marry	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 marry	advmod
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	conj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	present	you	sire	wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sire=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	sister			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not marry	future	I	any one		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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