The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 68

But to-day he sends me to ask if you will give him your daughter in marriage?”

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: send, ask, give · To what, where: me, daughter, marriage

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, you), 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	_	6 sends	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 to	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sends	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sends	nsubj
6	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sends	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sends	advcl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 give	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	iobj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 marriage	case
18	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sends	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	present	fox	me			day	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	fox not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you		your daughter	marriage		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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