The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 34
‘Marry you, Madam,’ cried the Prince, in horror.
What happens: marry, cry · To what, where: you, Prince, horror
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. 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 | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 2 | Marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Marry | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 5 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marry | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marry | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 horror | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 horror | case |
| 13 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | infinitive | you | Madam vocative | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Prince | horror | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
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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