The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 101
I know you have long loved each other, and I wish to make you man and wife.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, love, wish, make · To what, where: other, man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 loved | aux |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 loved | advmod |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loved | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wish | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wife | cc |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | love | present · perfect | you | each other | long property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | man and wife | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary man=Product |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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