The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 68
‘Is not the princess to be married to-day?’
What happens: not be, marry · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 princess | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 princess | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 married | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 princess | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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