The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 95
We have come to ask if you would like to marry her.
Who acts: We, you · What happens: come, ask, like, marry · To what, where: sister
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 (We, you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 like | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 like | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | We | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like a condition, not said to happen | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | sister | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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