The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 44

‘Alas! who would not be vexed?’ answered she, ‘for the King intends to marry again, and has chosen for his new bride my enemy, the hideous Duchess Grumbly.’

What happens: not vex, answer, intend, marry, choose · To what, where: Princess

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: 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 vexed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 vexed	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 vexed	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 vexed	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 vexed	aux:pass
8	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 answered	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 vexed	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 vexed	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 intends	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 intends	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 King	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 intends	obl
18	intends	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 marry	mark
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 intends	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 marry	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chosen	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chosen	cc
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 chosen	aux
25	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 answered	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 bride	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bride	nmod:poss
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bride	amod
29	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chosen	obl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemy	nmod:poss
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bride	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Duchess	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Duchess	det
34	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Duchess	amod
35	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 enemy	appos
36	Grumbly	Grumbly	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Duchess	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not vex	would · passive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past	Princess			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	intend	present			for the King	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive		again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	choose	present · perfect			for St.'s new bride my enemy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bride=Beneficiary

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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