The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 103

Now tell me, O King, plump and plain, will you give your daughter to my son as wife?’

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, give · To what, where: me, daughter, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 King	punct
5	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	compound
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plump	punct
8	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 King	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plain	cc
10	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plump	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 son	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 wife	case
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	give	future	you	your daughter	my son			as wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to son=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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