The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 64
We are going to celebrate a marriage to-day, and I promise you we shall have plenty of fun.
Who acts: We, I · What happens: go, celebrate, promise, have · To what, where: marriage, you, plenty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 celebrate | mark |
| 5 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 marriage | det |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrate | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrate | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 promise | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 promise | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 promise | nsubj |
| 14 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 promise | iobj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 promise | ccomp |
| 19 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fun | case |
| 21 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plenty | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | We | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | celebrate | to-infinitive | We not said here | a marriage | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | present | I | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | shall | we | plenty of fun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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