The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 17

But there must be women somewhere in the world who are neither pink nor white, and I tell you, once for all, that I will never marry until I have found one exactly to my taste.’

Who acts: women, world, I, my · What happens: be, tell, not marry, find, taste · To what, where: world, you, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, world, I, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 be	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 be	nsubj
6	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 be	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pink	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pink	cop
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 pink	cc:preconj
13	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	acl:relcl
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 white	cc
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pink	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pink	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 once	punct
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 tell	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 once	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 marry	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 marry	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 marry	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 marry	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 marry	advmod
30	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	conj
31	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 found	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 found	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 found	aux
34	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 marry	advcl
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 found	obj
36	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	39 taste	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 taste	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 taste	nmod:poss
39	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 pink	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 pink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	must	women			the world; there	somewhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
2	is	present	the world				pink property	tree rules
3	be		the world not said here					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	not marry	future	I					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	find	present · perfect	I	one			to my taste	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
7	taste		my					nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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