The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 7
‘Marriage is either a success or it is a failure.’
Who acts: Marriage · What happens: be · To what, where: success, failure
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Marriage), 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 success | punct |
| 2 | Marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 success | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 success | cop |
| 4 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 6 success | cc:preconj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 success | det |
| 6 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 failure | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 failure | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 failure | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 failure | det |
| 11 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 success | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 success | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 success | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Marriage | a success or a failure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Marriage | a failure | 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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