The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 138
‘What prevents your marrying him?’ asked the eldest, ‘you would become a gardener too; it is a charming profession.
Who acts: you, marrying · What happens: prevent, ask, become, be · To what, where: marrying, gardener, charming profession
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, marrying), 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 | _ | 3 prevents | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 prevents | nsubj |
| 3 | prevents | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 marrying | nmod:poss |
| 5 | marrying | marrying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prevents | obj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marrying | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 prevents | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 prevents | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prevents | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eldest | det |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 become | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gardener | det |
| 18 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | xcomp |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 become | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 profession | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 profession | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 profession | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 profession | det |
| 24 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 profession | amod |
| 25 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prevents | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prevents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | present | your marrying | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marrying=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | become | would | you | a gardener | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | marrying | a charming profession | tree rules |
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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