The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 12

‘We were thinking what we should call the children that our daughter will have when she marries that young man.

Who acts: We, daughter · What happens: think, call, have, marry · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, daughter), 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 thinking	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 call	obj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 call	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 call	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 have	obj
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 children	acl:relcl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 marries	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 marries	nsubj
18	marries	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 man	mark
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marries	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	We		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	call	should	we	the children	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme child=Result
3	have	future	our daughter	the children	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	marry	present	daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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