The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 65
‘Since you will not marry anyone but the King of the Peacocks, we are going out together into the wide world to search for him.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not marry, go out, search · To what, where: anyone, wide world
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, we), 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 marry | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 marry | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 marry | advmod |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 marry | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 King | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 anyone | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Peacocks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Peacocks | det |
| 13 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 King | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 marry | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 together | advmod |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 going | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 world | amod |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 search | mark |
| 25 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 search | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry | future | you | anyone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go out | present · progressive | we | the wide world | together property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | we not said here | for person | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
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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