The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 192

‘You have called yourselves King and Prince,’ he cried, ‘to try and make me marry your sister, but you are nothing but beggars, not worth the water you drink.

Who acts: Prince, me, you · What happens: call, cry, try, make, marry, be · To what, where: You, me, sister, nothing, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, me, 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	_	4 called	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 called	obj
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Prince	cc
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sister	nmod:poss
22	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 nothing	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 nothing	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 nothing	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 cried	obl
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 beggars	cc
29	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nothing	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 worth	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 worth	advmod
32	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 nothing	amod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 worth	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 drink	nsubj
36	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 water	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	present · perfect · passive		You	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme yourselves=Result
2	cry speech: express	past	Prince		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	to-infinitive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	infinitive		me	tree rules
5	marry	infinitive	me not said here	your sister	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
6	is a	present	you	nothing	tree rules
7	drink	present	you	the water not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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