The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 12

‘Your father has sent you here to marry my son,’ he said, ‘and you may be sure that I am not going to offend him by altering his arrangements.’

Who acts: father, you, I · What happens: send, marry, say, be, not go, offend · To what, where: you, son, father, arrangements · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you, I), 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 sent	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sent	iobj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sent	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
17	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sure	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sure	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 going	advmod
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sure	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 offend	mark
29	offend	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 offend	obj
31	by	by	SCONJ	_	32 altering	mark
32	altering	alter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 offend	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 arrangements	nmod:poss
34	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 altering	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	present · perfect	Your father		you	here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	marry	to-infinitive	Your father not said here	my son				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	may	you				sure property	tree rules
5	not go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	offend	to-infinitive	I not said here	father				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
7	alter	gerund	I not said here	father's arrangements				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arrangement=Patient
8	arrange		father					nom arrangement «cognition transitive»: poss=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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