The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 29
‘Very well, dear husband, I shall do what you wish, and remain where I am.’
Who acts: dear husband, you, I · What happens: do, wish, remain, be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear husband, you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 dear | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 husband | amod |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 husband | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remain | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remain | cc |
| 16 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | conj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 remain | ccomp |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 where | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 where | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | dear husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | remain | present | dear husband not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | I | where property | 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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