The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 90

“That you should marry that little wretch would be far more terrible,” answered the King.

Who acts: That, little wretch, King · What happens: marry, be, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (That, little wretch, King), 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	_	5 marry	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 marry	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	ccomp
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wretch	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wretch	amod
8	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 terrible	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 terrible	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 terrible	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 terrible	advmod
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marry	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	marry in a quote	should	That		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is in a quote	would	that little wretch	terrible property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	the King		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 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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