The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 14
But she thought to herself, ‘This will be quite impossible, and I shall not have to marry someone I do not care for.’
Who acts: Princess, This, I · What happens: think, be, not have, marry, not care · To what, where: Princess, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, This, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 8 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 impossible | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 impossible | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 impossible | advmod |
| 12 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 have | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 marry | mark |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 marry | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 care | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 care | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 care | advmod |
| 25 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 someone | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 care | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Princess | Princess | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | future | This | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | I not said here | someone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not care | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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