The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 140
‘They want me to marry the king’s daughter, and I won’t do it.’
Who acts: friends, me, I · What happens: want, marry, not do · To what, where: me, daughter, sack
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, me, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | friends = friend | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | the king's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not do | future | I | sack | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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