The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 80

‘You must go to the King,’ he said to her, ‘and demand the hand of his lovely daughter in marriage for me.’

Who acts: You, Martin · What happens: go, say, demand · To what, where: mother, hand, marriage · 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, Martin), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 demand	punct
15	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 demand	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 demand	cc
17	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hand	det
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 demand	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 daughter	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hand	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 marriage	case
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 demand	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 demand	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	must	You				to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Martin		mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	demand speech: request	infinitive	Martin not said here	the hand of Martin's lovely daughter		marriage	for me	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Precondition

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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