The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 93

‘You might spend the rest of your life over that without doing any good, but as you are young, and quite the prettiest creature I have seen for a long time, I will marry you if you like, and I will give you those cats and mice that you see there for your own.

Who acts: You, I, prettiest creature · What happens: spend, do, be, see, marry, like · To what, where: rest, that, any, prettiest creature, you, cats

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, prettiest creature), 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 spend	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 spend	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spend	aux
4	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spend	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 life	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	nmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 spend	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 doing	mark
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spend	advcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 doing	obj
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 any	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 young	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 young	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 young	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 young	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 young	cop
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spend	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 marry	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 marry	cc
24	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	27 creature	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 creature	det
26	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 creature	amod
27	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 marry	nsubj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 seen	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 creature	acl:relcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 time	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 time	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 time	amod
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 creature	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 marry	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 marry	aux
38	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 young	conj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 marry	obj
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 like	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 like	nsubj
42	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 marry	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 give	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 give	cc
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 give	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 give	aux
47	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spend	parataxis
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 give	iobj
49	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	50 cats	det
50	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 give	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 mice	cc
52	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 cats	conj
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 see	obj
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 see	nsubj
55	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 cats	acl:relcl
56	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 see	advmod
57	for	for	ADP	_	59 own	case
58	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 own	nmod:poss
59	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 see	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	might	You	the rest of your life		that			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
2	do	gerund	You not said here	any					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
3	is	present	you					young property	tree rules
4	see	present · perfect	I	quite prettiest creature not said here			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
5	marry	future	quite prettiest creature	you					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	give	future	I	that cats and mice	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cat=Theme
8	see	present	you	that cats and mice		there		for your own	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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