The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 3

Now it was certainly a little audacious of him to venture to say to the Emperor’s daughter, ‘Will you marry me?’

Who acts: kingdom, you · What happens: be, venture, say, marry · To what, where: daughter, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, 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	7 audacious	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 audacious	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 audacious	cop
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 audacious	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 audacious	obl:unmarked
7	audacious	audacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 audacious	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 venture	mark
11	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 audacious	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 venture	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 daughter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Emperor	det
16	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Emperor	case
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 marry	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 marry	punct
21	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 marry	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 marry	nsubj
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 marry	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 audacious	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 audacious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	kingdom			now	of Prince; a little obl:unmarked; audacious, certainly property	tree rules
2	venture	to-infinitive	kingdom not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	kingdom not said here		the Emperor's daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient
4	marry	future	you	me				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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