The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 65

Because he has done this, I will marry him rather than one of you, who have come hither to wed me, for many kings here sought to free me from the spells, but none could do it save Ian the fisher’s son.’

Who acts: head, I, many kings, you · What happens: do, marry, come, wed, seek, save · To what, where: this, head, me, Ian

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, I, many kings, 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 done	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 marry	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 save	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 one	cc
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 rather	fixed
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 marry	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 marry	parataxis
20	hither	hither	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wed	mark
22	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kings	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 kings	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kings	amod
27	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sought	nsubj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 kings	advmod
29	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 free	mark
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sought	xcomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 free	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 spells	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spells	det
35	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 free	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 do	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 do	cc
38	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	40 do	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 save	aux
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 do	obj
42	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 save	obj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fisher	det
45	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 son	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 fisher	case
47	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 save	vocative
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 save	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	head	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	marry	future	I	head		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	come	present · perfect			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wed	to-infinitive		me		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	seek	past	many kings		free property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	save	imperative · do-support	you not said here	Ian	the fisher's son vocative	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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