The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 13
I wish to propose for your sister, the Princess Marya.’
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, propose
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 propose | mark |
| 4 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 propose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Marya | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Marya | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Marya | compound |
| 11 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | propose not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | for your sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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