English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 79

Then they took her in their arms and kissed her, and said she should now be their daughter, for their son should marry her.

Who acts: king, daughter, son · What happens: take, kiss, say, be, marry · To what, where: daughter, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, daughter, son), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kissed	cc
9	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kissed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 daughter	aux
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 daughter	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 daughter	cop
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 marry	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 marry	mark
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marry	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 marry	aux
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 marry	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	king	daughter	king's arms	then	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
2	kiss	past	king not said here	daughter			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	should	daughter	king's daughter		now	tree rules
5	marry	should	king's son	daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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