The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 42

“Do not be anxious about that,” said the girl; “if you will only marry me all will be well.

Who acts: girl, you · What happens: not be, say, marry, be · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 anxious	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 anxious	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 anxious	cop
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 anxious	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 anxious	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 marry	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 marry	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 marry	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 marry	advmod
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 marry	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 me	det
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 well	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 well	cop
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 me	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support			about that; anxious property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the girl = girl		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is in a quote	future			well 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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