The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 109

‘Will he consent to our marriage?’

Who acts: Countess, our · What happens: consent, marry

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countess, our), 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 consent	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 consent	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 consent	nsubj
4	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 marriage	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 marriage	nmod:poss
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consent	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 consent	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 consent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consent	future	Countess					to our marriage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme
2	marry		our						nom marriage «state 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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