The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 30

‘Marry you? why with all my heart! to-morrow if you like.’

Who acts: you · What happens: marry, like · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (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	_	2 Marry	punct
2	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Marry	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 Marry	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 heart	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 heart	det:predet
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Marry	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 morrow	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 to	punct
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Marry	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 like	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Marry	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	you				with my heart; to morrow	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to morrow=Co-Patient
2	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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