The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 110
If not, she would go into a nunnery, and he could marry no other as long as she lived, for he was wedded to her with the service of the dead, which he had heard.
Who acts: princess, father · What happens: go, marry, live, wed, hear · To what, where: nunnery, other, father, princess, service
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, father), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 not | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 not | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 nunnery | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nunnery | det |
| 9 | nunnery | nunnery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marry | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 marry | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 marry | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 marry | aux |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 marry | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 lived | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wedded | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 wedded | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wedded | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wedded | aux:pass |
| 26 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 marry | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wedded | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 service | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 service | det |
| 31 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wedded | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 dead | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dead | det |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 service | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 heard | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 heard | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 heard | aux |
| 39 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 service | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | princess | a nunnery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into nunnery=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | marry | could | father | no other | long property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | |||
| 3 | live | past | princess | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wed | past · passive | father | princess | with the service of the dead | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the service of the dead | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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