The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 23

“I marry YOU? why you must be a hundred at least!” cried he.

Who acts: Knight, you · What happens: marry, be, cry · To what, where: YOU, hundred · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, 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	_	3 marry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
3	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 marry	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 marry	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 cried	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hundred	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hundred	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 hundred	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cried	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 cried	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 least	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 least	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 marry	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	marry in a quote	present	Knight	YOU	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	is a in a quote	must	you	a hundred	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	Knight		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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