The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 106

‘Oh! dear youths,’ said the old man, ‘I am terribly lonely here; pray bring a bride for me also; only remember, she must be young and pretty.’

Who acts: dear youths, I, girl · What happens: say, be, pray, bring, remember · To what, where: bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear youths, I, girl), 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	_	5 youths	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 youths	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 youths	amod
5	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 youths	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 youths	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lonely	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 lonely	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 lonely	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lonely	cop
16	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	17 lonely	advmod
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lonely	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 pray	punct
20	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pray	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bride	det
23	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obl
26	also	also	ADV	_	21 bring	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 remember	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 remember	advmod
29	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 young	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 young	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 young	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 young	cop
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 remember	ccomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pretty	cc
36	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 young	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 remember	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dear youths				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I		here	lonely, terribly property	tree rules
3	pray	infinitive					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	bring	infinitive		a bride		for me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination
5	remember	infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	is	must	girl			young property	tree rules
7	be		girl not said here				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 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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