The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 7

Promise me, I beg of you, that you will marry according to my wishes’; and he then named the daughter of a neighbouring King who he was anxious should be his son’s wife.

Who acts: you, I, King, daughter, my · What happens: promise, beg, marry, accord, name, neighbour · To what, where: me, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, King, daughter), 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	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Promise	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beg	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 beg	nsubj
5	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Promise	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 beg	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marry	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 marry	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 marry	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 marry	aux
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beg	conj
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 wishes	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wishes	nmod:poss
16	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 marry	obl
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 wishes	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 named	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 named	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 named	nsubj
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 named	advmod
22	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Promise	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 daughter	det
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 named	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 King	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 King	det
27	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 King	amod
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 anxious	nsubj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 anxious	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 anxious	cop
32	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 daughter	acl:relcl
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 son	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 son	cop
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 son	nmod:poss
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wife	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 son	case
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 anxious	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here		me			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request	present	I				of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	marry	future	you				accord my wishes	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	name	past	King	the daughter of a neighbouring King		then		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
6	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
7	is	past	the daughter of a neighbouring King				anxious property	tree rules
8	is	should					's King's son	tree rules
9	wish		my					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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