The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 18

‘Yes, I know, my boy,’ said the father, ‘but if you marry our daughter what shall you call your children?

Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, say, marry, call · To what, where: boy, father, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	_	5 know	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boy	nmod:poss
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 call	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 marry	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
19	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 call	advcl
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 call	obj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 father	acl:relcl
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 call	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	I	my boy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past		the father	tree rules
3	marry a condition, not said to happen	present	you	our daughter	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	call	shall	you	the father	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme child=Result

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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