The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 74
‘Has the Count given his consent to our marriage?’
Who acts: ‘, Count, our · What happens: have, give, consent, marry · To what, where: Count, consent, marriage
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 (‘, Count, 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Has | nsubj |
| 2 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Count | det |
| 4 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Has | obj |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Count | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 consent | nmod:poss |
| 7 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Has | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | ‘ | the Count | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the Count not said here | ‘'s consent | our marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient | |||
| 3 | consent | ‘ | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | 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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