English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 26

Her father pressed her sore but she said: “Father dear, I do not wish to marry; I can be quite happy with Coo-my-dove here.”

Who acts: father, daughter · What happens: press, say, not wish, marry, be · To what, where: sore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sore	nmod:poss
5	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pressed	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 dear	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 dear	punct
11	Father	father	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dear	det
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wish	advmod
17	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dear	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 happy	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 happy	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 happy	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 happy	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 happy	advmod
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pressed	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 dove	case
27	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dove	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 dove	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dove	nmod:poss
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 dove	punct
31	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happy	obl
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 dove	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 happy	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	press	past	daughter's father	daughter's sore		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent sore=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not wish in a quote	present · do-support	daughter			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	daughter not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is in a quote	can	daughter		with my dove; happy property	tree rules

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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