English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 27

Then he said: “Look you here, I want a wife, and I'll marry your daughter.

Who acts: king · What happens: say, look, want, marry · To what, where: you, wife, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Look	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Look	punct
6	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Look	obj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Look	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Look	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 want	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 marry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 marry	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 marry	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 marry	aux
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Look	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	infinitive		you	here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute
3	want in a quote	present	king	a wife			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
4	marry in a quote	future	king	your daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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