The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 44
If you gain her affections, let her marry you.’
Who acts: you, wife · What happens: gain, let, marry · To what, where: affections, wife, you
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 (you, wife), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 gain | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 gain | nsubj |
| 3 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 affections | nmod:poss |
| 5 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gain | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gain | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain a condition, not said to happen | present | you | wife's affections | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | wife not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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