The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 126
And now he wants to marry me, but that I will never consent to.’
Who acts: Prince, I · What happens: want, marry, not consent · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wants | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wants | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 marry | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 consent | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 consent | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 consent | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 consent | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 consent | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 consent | advmod |
| 14 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wants | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 consent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Prince | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not consent | future | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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