The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 12

So marry, and you will be perfectly happy.’

Who acts: you · What happens: marry, be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 marry	advmod
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happy	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 happy	cc
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 happy	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happy	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 happy	cop
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	9 happy	advmod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marry	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marry	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	future	you					happy, perfectly property	tree rules

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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