The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 36
‘The youngest daughter of this King will be married to a pig from the North.’
What happens: marry · To what, where: youngest daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 married | aux:pass |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pig | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pig | det |
| 13 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 North | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 North | det |
| 16 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pig | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | future · passive | the youngest daughter of this King | to a pig from the North | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to pig=Co-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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