The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 19

“My dear child,” said he, “you are of an age to take a husband, therefore I am thinking of marrying you to the son of my prime minister.

Who acts: dear child, you · What happens: say, be, take, think, marry · To what, where: husband, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 child	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 age	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 age	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 age	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 age	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 age	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 age	det
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 age	acl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 husband	det
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thinking	punct
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	24 thinking	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 thinking	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thinking	aux
24	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 marrying	mark
26	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 thinking	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 marrying	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 son	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 son	det
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 marrying	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 minister	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 minister	nmod:poss
33	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 minister	amod
34	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My dear child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you			of a age		tree rules
3	take in a quote	to-infinitive	My dear child not said here		a husband			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	My dear child = child				therefore property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	marry in a quote	gerund	My dear child = child not said here	you			to the son of my prime minister	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to son=Co-Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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