The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 91

‘Yes, I will marry you,’ said the young man, with a voice almost as soft as when he was a princess.

Who acts: I, young man, husband · What happens: marry, say, be · To what, where: you, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young man, husband), 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	_	6 marry	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 marry	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 marry	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 marry	aux
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 marry	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 voice	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 voice	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 soft	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soft	advmod
20	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voice	amod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 princess	mark
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 princess	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 princess	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 princess	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soft	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	future	I	you		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man		with a voice	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	husband	a princess		tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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