The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 93
‘Prince Milan is just going to be married,’ replied the old man.
Who acts: Prince Milan · What happens: go, marry, reply · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Prince Milan), 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 | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Milan | compound |
| 3 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 going | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 married | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 going | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | Prince Milan | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | Prince Milan not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the old man | 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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