The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 32

‘Make ready for thy marriage,’ cried he, ‘for the wedding shall take place this very night, and I will summon thy bride to greet thee.’

Who acts: father, I, thy · What happens: make, cry, take, summon, greet, marry · To what, where: place, bride, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, thy), 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	_	2 Make	punct
2	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Make	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 marriage	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 marriage	nmod:poss
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ready	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 wedding	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wedding	det
15	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	parataxis
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 take	obj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 night	advmod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 summon	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 summon	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 summon	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 summon	aux
26	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
27	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 bride	nmod:poss
28	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 summon	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 greet	mark
30	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 summon	advcl
31	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 greet	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive					ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	cry speech: express	past	father					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	shall		place		night	for the wedding	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument place=Theme this=Destination
4	summon	future	I		thy bride			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient
5	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	I not said here	thee				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
6	marry		thy					nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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 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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