The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 19
Then, if I do not return, you are free to marry whom you will.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not return, be, marry
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 free | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 return | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 return | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 return | advmod |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 free | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 return | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 free | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 free | cop |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 free | advcl |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | then | free property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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