The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 116

“But, my child, it is impossible for you to marry such a being,” exclaimed the sultan.

Who acts: you, sultan · What happens: be, marry, exclaim · To what, where: a · 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 (you, sultan), 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	_	9 impossible	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 child	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 impossible	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 impossible	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 impossible	cop
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 marry	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 marry	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 marry	mark
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 impossible	csubj
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 a	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 marry	obj
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ,	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 a	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 impossible	punct
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 impossible	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sultan	det
21	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exclaimed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present			my child obl; impossible property	tree rules
2	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	you	a		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient
3	exclaim speech: express	past	the sultan			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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