The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 18

‘Oh! do whatever you like with me,’ said the King; ‘you may turn me to stone, but I will marry no one but Fiordelisa.’

Who acts: you, King, I · What happens: do, like, say, turn, marry · To what, where: whatever, me, stone, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 do	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 do	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whatever	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 turn	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 turn	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 turn	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 turn	aux
19	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 turn	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 stone	case
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 marry	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 marry	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 marry	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	aux
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 turn	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 marry	obj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 Fiordelisa	cc
31	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 one	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 turn	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present		whatever			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
2	like	present	you			with me	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	turn	may	you	me	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme to stone=Trajectory
5	marry	future	I	no one but Fiordelisa			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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