The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 33

‘You are going to be married, then?’

Who acts: You · What happens: go, 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 (You), 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 going	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 married	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 married	aux:pass
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 going	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 married	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 married	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	You						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry	to-infinitive · passive	You not said here				then		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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