Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 55

You ought to know that I can't marry you at such a time, or, at all events, can't marry you lawfully.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, not marry · To what, where: you, events · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. 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), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 marry	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 marry	advmod
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 marry	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 marry	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 or	punct
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 events	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 events	det
20	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 marry	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 events	punct
22	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 marry	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 marry	advmod
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 marry	obj
26	lawfully	lawfully	ADV	_	24 marry	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	ought	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not marry	can	I	you		time		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	not marry	can	You not said here	you	all events		lawfully property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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