The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 98

Perhaps I shall fall downstairs and marry a princess.’

Who acts: I · What happens: fall, marry · To what, where: princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 marry	cc
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marry	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	shall	I					downstairs, perhaps property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	infinitive	I not said here	a princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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