The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 66

‘All I ask,’ said Grannonia, ‘is that, should I succeed in what you desire, you will give me your son in marriage.’

Who acts: All, Grannonia, that, you · What happens: ask, say, be, succeed, desire, give · To what, where: that, son, marriage · 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 (All, Grannonia, that, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ask	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 succeed	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 succeed	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 succeed	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 succeed	nsubj
16	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 succeed	obl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 desire	nsubj
20	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 succeed	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	iobj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 marriage	case
29	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 succeed	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 succeed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	All				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Grannonia				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present		that			tree rules
4	succeed	should	that				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in what=Eventuality
5	desire	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	give	future	you		your son	marriage	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme

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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