The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 47

Then their marriage had to be celebrated, for the witch had to stick to what she had promised, and he must get the princess whatever might happen afterwards.

Who acts: marriage, witch, whatever, ears · What happens: have, celebrate, stick, promise, get, happen · To what, where: princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, witch, whatever, ears), 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	4 had	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 marriage	nmod:poss
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 celebrated	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 celebrated	aux:pass
7	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stick	mark
14	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 stick	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 promised	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 promised	aux
19	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 what	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stick	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 happen	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 happen	aux
29	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 princess	acl:relcl
30	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	29 happen	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	ears's marriage		then		tree rules
2	celebrate	to-infinitive · passive	ears's marriage not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
3	have	past	the witch				tree rules
4	stick	to-infinitive	the witch not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to what=Co-Patient
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	witch				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	get	must	marriage	the princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
7	happen	might	whatever			afterwards property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	marry		ears = ear				nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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