The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 95
She must be plotting to prevent our marriage.
Who acts: daughter, our · What happens: plot, prevent, marry · To what, where: marriage
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, our), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plotting | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 plotting | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 plotting | aux |
| 4 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 prevent | mark |
| 6 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 plotting | xcomp |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prevent | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plotting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plot | must · progressive | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prevent | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | our marriage | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | our | nom marriage «state 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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