The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 143
If you could only marry him, you would be well provided for.
Who acts: you · What happens: marry, provide · To what, where: neighbour, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 marry | advmod |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 provided | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 provided | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 provided | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 provided | aux:pass |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 provided | advmod |
| 12 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 provided | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry a condition, not said to happen | could | you | neighbour | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | provide | would · passive | you | well property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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