The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 9

‘My little lambkin, are you willing to marry the great King Merlin’s son, for this Ambassador has come on his behalf to fetch you?’

Who acts: little lambkin, Ambassador · What happens: be, marry, come, fetch · To what, where: son, behalf, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (little lambkin, Ambassador), 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	_	8 willing	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lambkin	nmod:poss
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lambkin	amod
4	lambkin	lambkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 willing	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lambkin	punct
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 willing	cop
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 willing	nsubj
8	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 willing	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Merlin	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Merlin	amod
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Merlin	compound
14	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Merlin	case
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 Ambassador	det
20	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 marry	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 behalf	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 behalf	nmod:poss
25	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fetch	mark
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 fetch	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 willing	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	My little lambkin			willing property	tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	My little lambkin not said here	the great King Merlin's son			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	come	present · perfect	this Ambassador		Ambassador's behalf		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on behalf=Location
4	fetch	to-infinitive	this Ambassador not said here	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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