The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 38

And the third: ‘A King shall come and marry her.’

Who acts: King · What happens: come, marry · To what, where: first

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 third	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 third	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 marry	cc
11	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 marry	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 third	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 third	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	shall	a King						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	infinitive	a King not said here	first					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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