The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 56

‘I am sorry not to oblige you, Gossip, but he need expect no mercy from me unless he will marry my goddaughter, whom you see yonder looking so pretty and charming.

Who acts: I, King, you, goddaughter · What happens: be, not oblige, need, expect, marry, see · To what, where: you, mercy, goddaughter

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, King, you, goddaughter), 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 sorry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sorry	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 oblige	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 oblige	mark
7	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sorry	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 oblige	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Gossip	punct
10	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oblige	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 need	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	parataxis
15	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	xcomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 mercy	det
17	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 expect	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 expect	obl
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	23 marry	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marry	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 marry	aux
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expect	advcl
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 goddaughter	nmod:poss
25	goddaughter	goddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marry	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 see	obj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 goddaughter	acl:relcl
30	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
31	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 see	xcomp
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 pretty	advmod
33	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	31 looking	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 charming	cc
35	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 looking	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		sorry property	tree rules
2	not oblige	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	Gossip obl	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	need	present	King			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	expect not said to happen	infinitive	King not said here	no mercy	from me	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Theme
5	marry a condition, not said to happen	future	King	my goddaughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient
6	see	present	you	my goddaughter	yonder property	tree rules
7	look	gerund	my goddaughter not said here		pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	charm	gerund	my goddaughter not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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