The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 113
“I will never marry my daughter to such a monster,” he cried.
Who acts: king · What happens: not marry, cry · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (king), 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 marry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 marry | advmod |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marry | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 monster | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 monster | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 monster | det |
| 11 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry in a quote | future | king | my daughter | to such monster | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to monster=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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