The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 119

‘Didn’t I tell you, my son, that you should marry someone of your own rank?

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not do, tell, marry · To what, where: you, someone · 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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct
2	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Did	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Did	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marry	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 marry	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 marry	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 marry	aux
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 marry	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 rank	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rank	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rank	amod
19	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 someone	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	my son vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	marry	should	you	someone			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient

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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