The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 92

'And be sure you tell him,' added she, 'that the marriage cannot be celebrated till she is fifteen years old, or else some terrible misfortune will happen to the child.'

Who acts: you, princess, terrible misfortune · What happens: be, tell, add, not celebrate, happen · To what, where: news, princess, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, terrible misfortune), 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	_	4 sure	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sure	cc
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct
10	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 added	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 celebrated	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 marriage	det
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 celebrated	nsubj:pass
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 celebrated	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 celebrated	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 celebrated	aux:pass
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 added	advcl
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 old	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 old	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 old	cop
24	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 old	obl:unmarked
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 celebrated	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 happen	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 happen	cc
29	else	else	ADV	_	34 happen	advmod
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 misfortune	det
31	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 misfortune	amod
32	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 happen	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 happen	aux
34	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 child	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 child	det
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 happen	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here				sure property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	you		news			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	add speech: assert	past	you not said here	princess				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	not celebrate	can · passive		the marriage				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	present	princess			year	old property	tree rules
6	happen	future	some terrible misfortune				to the child; else property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/92/