The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 64

‘Marry you?’ exclaimed he, ‘but--but--I am not yet twenty, and you --why, you must be a hundred at least!

Who acts: I, prisoner · What happens: marry, exclaim, not be, be · To what, where: you, twenty, hundred, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prisoner), 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 Marry	punct
2	Marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 exclaimed	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Marry	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hundred	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 hundred	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hundred	cc
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 hundred	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hundred	cc
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 twenty	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 twenty	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 twenty	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 twenty	advmod
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 twenty	advmod
18	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hundred	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 you	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 you	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 twenty	conj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 twenty	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 twenty	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twenty	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hundred	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hundred	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 hundred	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hundred	det
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 exclaimed	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 least	case
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 hundred	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	marry	infinitive		you			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	exclaim speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is a	present	I	twenty		yet	tree rules
4	is a	must	prisoner	a hundred	least		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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/64/