The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 20

I wish you to marry one of them, and you do not try to please me.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: wish, marry, not try, please · To what, where: you, one, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wish	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	advcl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 marry	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 try	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 try	advmod
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 please	mark
16	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 please	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wish	present	I		you	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
2	marry	to-infinitive	I not said here	one of bonfires		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	not try	present · do-support	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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