The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 17
If you wish to marry her, you must first set her free, and this I will help you to do.
Who acts: you, this · What happens: wish, marry, set, help, do · To what, where: woman, free, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this), 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 | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 free | nmod:poss |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | must | you | woman's free | first property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result | |||
| 4 | help | future | this | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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