The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 104

But the king said to himself, ‘What! am I to wed my daughter to a man of whom I know nothing.

Who acts: king, I · What happens: say, wed, know · To what, where: king, daughter, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 What	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 What	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 wed	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 What	punct
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wed	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wed	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wed	mark
14	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wed	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 man	nmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 whom	acl:relcl
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 know	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king		king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wed	present	I	my daughter		to a man	tree rules
3	know	present	I	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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