The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 16

One day the Crab said to the fisherman’s wife, ‘Go to the King and tell him I wish to marry his younger daughter.’

Who acts: Crab, I · What happens: say, go, tell, wish, marry · To what, where: King, younger daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crab, I), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crab	det
4	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 fisherman	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
13	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 King	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 Go	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wish	nsubj
21	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 marry	mark
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wish	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 daughter	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marry	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Crab			day	to the fisherman's wife	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive					to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	King's younger daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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