The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 18

‘My daughter certainly ought to be the first to be married; she is older than yours, and a thousand times more charming!’

Who acts: daughter, Queen · What happens: be, marry

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Queen), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 first	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 daughter	nmod:poss
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 first	nsubj
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 ought	advmod
5	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 first	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	9 first	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 first	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 first	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 married	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 married	aux:pass
12	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 first	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 older	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 older	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 older	cop
16	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 first	conj
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 yours	case
18	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 older	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 charming	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 charming	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 times	nummod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 more	obl:unmarked
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 charming	amod
25	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 first	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 first	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	ought	My daughter	more charming obl; first property	tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive · passive	My daughter not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
3	is	present	Queen	than yours; old property	tree rules

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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