English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 47
The third night Kate consented to watch, only if she should marry the sick prince.
Who acts: Kate · What happens: consent, watch, marry · To what, where: sick prince
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kate), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consented | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 consented | nsubj |
| 5 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 consented | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marry | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 marry | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 watch | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prince | amod |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Kate | night | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | Kate not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | marry a condition, not said to happen | should | Kate | the sick prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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