The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 14

But I must make her acquaintance.’

Who acts: I, wife · What happens: make, acquaint · To what, where: acquaintance

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 make	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 acquaintance	nmod:poss
6	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	must	I	wife's acquaintance					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product
2	acquaint		wife						nom acquaintance «cognition 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 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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