Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 30

"Well, I suppose I must tell you now," he replied; "two of my daughters must prepare themselves to be married, for the marriages certainly will take place.

Who acts: Father, two · What happens: suppose, tell, reply, prepare, marry, take · To what, where: you, visitors, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, two), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 suppose	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 suppose	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 suppose	nsubj
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suppose	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 prepare	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 two	punct
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 prepare	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 daughters	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughters	nmod:poss
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 two	nmod
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 prepare	aux
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 suppose	advcl
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 prepare	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 married	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 married	aux:pass
26	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 prepare	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 marriages	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 marriages	det
30	marriages	marriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 take	obl
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	33 take	advmod
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 prepare	conj
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	Father					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	Father		you	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past	Father					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prepare in a quote	must	two of my daughters	visitors = visitor				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
5	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	two of my daughters not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
6	take in a quote	future	two of my daughters not said here	place			for the marriages; certainly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for marriage=Beneficiary

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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