The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 31
‘They are obliged to be, for I will not have anything forgotten that happens to you,’ he answered.
Who acts: I, history · What happens: oblige, be, not have, forget, happen, answer · To what, where: painters, anything, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, history), 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 | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 be | mark |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | parataxis |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 anything | acl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 happens | mark |
| 16 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 happens | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 answered | nsubj |
| 22 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | painters = painter | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not have | future | I | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | happen | present | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | past | history | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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