The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 10

No; I’d much prefer to marry the King’s daughter; therefore I pray you go without further delay, and demand an audience of the King, and tell him a snake wishes to marry his daughter.’

Who acts: I, you, snake · What happens: prefer, marry, pray, go, demand, tell · To what, where: daughter, audience, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. 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, snake), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 prefer	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 prefer	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 prefer	nsubj
4	’d	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prefer	aux
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 prefer	advmod
6	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prefer	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 pray	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 pray	nsubj
16	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prefer	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pray	conj
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 delay	case
20	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 delay	amod
21	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 demand	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 demand	cc
24	demand	demand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 pray	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 audience	det
26	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 demand	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 King	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 audience	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 demand	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 snake	det
35	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wishes	nsubj
36	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 marry	mark
38	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 wishes	xcomp
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 daughter	nmod:poss
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 marry	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prefer	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the King's daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	pray	present	I			therefore property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	go	present	you			without further delay	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	demand speech: request	infinitive	I not said here	a audience of the King			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive			King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	wish	present	a snake				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	a snake not said here	King's 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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