The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 13
‘How could I be pleased to marry an ugly, lame Princess?’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: ugly lame Princess
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. 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 | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | cop |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | advcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 10 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Princess | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ugly | punct |
| 12 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Princess | amod |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | I | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | I not said here | a ugly lame Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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