The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 223
But if you only have the courage to marry me I shall get back my beauty.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, marry, get back · To what, where: courage, me, beauty
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 (you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 courage | det |
| 7 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 courage | acl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the courage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get back | shall | I | my beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=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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