The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 17

‘I tell you that you shall marry her,’ cried King Grumpy angrily.

Who acts: I, you, King · What happens: tell, marry, cry · To what, where: you, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (I, you, 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	_	3 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 marry	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 marry	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 marry	aux
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 marry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
14	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	xcomp
15	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	12 cried	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry	shall	you	Princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	King			angrily, grumpy property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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