The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 87

“My mother wishes me to marry you!

Who acts: mother · What happens: wish, marry · To what, where: Beautiful Princess, you

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 (mother), 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	_	4 wishes	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wishes	nsubj
4	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wishes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wishes	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 marry	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	My mother	Beautiful Princess = princess					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
2	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	My mother not said here	you					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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