Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 240

I must tell thee: I am going to marry the king's daughter, and the nuptials are to take place this evening!”

Who acts: I, nuptials · What happens: tell, go, marry, be · To what, where: thee, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nuptials), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 tell	iobj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tell	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nuptials	det
18	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 take	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 take	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 take	mark
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl:unmarked
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	I		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry	to-infinitive	I not said here	the king's daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	is	present	the nuptials			evening	take property	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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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