The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 5
‘I was thinking what I shall call my first child after I am married to that young man.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, call, marry · To what, where: first child, I · 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 (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 | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 married | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 married | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 married | aux:pass |
| 15 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 call | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 man | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 married | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | shall | I | my first child | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme child=Result | ||||
| 3 | marry | present · passive | I | to that young man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to man=Co-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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