More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 71

But her father said, "Let her marry the first that comes for her."

Who acts: father, wife, first · What happens: say, let, marry, come · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife, first), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
7	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Let	obj
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Let	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 first	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 comes	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 comes	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		wife		tree rules
3	marry in a quote	infinitive	wife not said here			tree rules
4	come in a quote	present	the first		for wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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