The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 31
When they are over, then I will marry the slave.’
Who acts: affair, I · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: slave
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 (affair, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 over | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 marry | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 over | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 marry | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | aux |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 slave | det |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marry | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marry | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | affair | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | future | I | the slave | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=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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