The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 41
I will praise you so much to my father that he will marry me to you and make you the heir to the throne.’
Who acts: I, King · What happens: praise, marry, make · To what, where: you, me, heir
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. 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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 praise | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 praise | aux |
| 3 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 praise | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 praise | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praise | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 marry | aux |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 praise | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 marry | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heir | det |
| 21 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 throne | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 throne | det |
| 24 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 praise | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | future | I | you | to my father | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=be' | |||
| 2 | marry | future | King | me | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to you=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | King not said here | the heir | you | to the throne | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary heir=Product |
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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