The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 1

“I have no wish to forbid this marriage; but, before I can allow it to be celebrated, the bridegroom must prove himself worthy of such a bride by fulfilling three tasks.

Who acts: I, marriage, bridegroom · What happens: have, forbid, allow, celebrate, prove, fulfil · To what, where: wish, marriage, bridegroom, three tasks

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, marriage, bridegroom), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 wish	det
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forbid	mark
7	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wish	acl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 marriage	det
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forbid	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 allow	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 allow	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 allow	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allow	aux
16	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allow	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 celebrated	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 celebrated	aux:pass
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 allow	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prove	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bridegroom	det
23	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prove	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 prove	aux
25	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 prove	obj
27	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 prove	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 bride	case
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 bride	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bride	det
31	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worthy	obl
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 fulfilling	mark
33	fulfilling	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 prove	advcl
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 tasks	nummod
35	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fulfilling	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	I	no wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
2	forbid in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	this marriage		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme
3	allow in a quote	can	I	marriage		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	celebrate not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	marriage not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	prove in a quote	must	the bridegroom	bridegroom	worthy property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	fulfil in a quote	gerund	the bridegroom not said here	three tasks		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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