The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 46

For myself I am not afraid of any rivals, and, now I have declared my intention of marrying your daughter, no doubt they will at once withdraw their pretensions.

Who acts: myself, I, declared intention, doubt, my · What happens: not be, declare, marry, withdraw, intend · To what, where: daughter, declared intention

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (myself, I, declared intention, doubt), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 afraid	mark
2	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 afraid	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 intention	advcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rivals	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 rivals	det
9	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 afraid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 declared	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 declared	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	aux
16	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 intention	amod
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 intention	nmod:poss
18	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 withdraw	obl
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 marrying	mark
20	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 intention	acl
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marrying	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 doubt	punct
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 doubt	det
25	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 withdraw	nsubj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 will	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 doubt	acl:relcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 withdraw	obl
30	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pretensions	nmod:poss
32	pretensions	pretension	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 withdraw	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 withdraw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	myself			of any rivals; afraid property	tree rules
2	declare speech: other	present · perfect	I		now		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	marry	gerund	my declared intention not said here	your daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	withdraw	present	no doubt	my declared intention			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretension=Theme
5	intend		my				nom intention «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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