The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 15

Let her marry you, in God’s name!’

Who acts: you, guest, God · What happens: let, marry, name · To what, where: guest, you, name

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, guest, God), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 marry	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 name	case
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 name	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 God	case
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marry	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	guest		tree rules
2	marry	infinitive	guest not said here	you	God's name	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	name		God			nom name «communication 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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