The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 15
‘That is the very reason,’ said the Prince, ‘that I wish to marry someone who is not ugly.
Who acts: That, Prince, I · What happens: be, say, wish, marry, not be · To what, where: reason, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Prince, 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 reason | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 reason | advmod |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wish | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 marry | mark |
| 18 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 19 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 marry | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ugly | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ugly | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 ugly | advmod |
| 23 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 someone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | someone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | ugly 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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