The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 25
Deliver me, and I will marry you and make you happy for ever after.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: deliver, marry, make · To what, where: me, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Deliver | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 marry | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 marry | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Deliver | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 marry | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 after | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 after | advmod |
| 15 | after | after | ADV | _ | 12 happy | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deliver | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | imperative | you not said here | me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | marry | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | I not said here | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=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 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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