--- title: No; I’d much prefer to marry the King’s daughter; therefore I pray y… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No; I’d much prefer to marry the King’s daughter; therefore I pray you go without further delay, and demand an audience of the King, and tell him a snake wishes to marry his daughter.’ Who acts: I, you, snake. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, snake), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:25:10 # text = No; I’d much prefer to marry the King’s daughter; therefore I pray you go without further delay, and demand an audience of the King, and tell him a snake wishes to marry his daughter.’ 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’d have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 much much ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 prefer prefer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 without without ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 demand demand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 wishes wish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prefer** | past | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the King's daughter | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 3 | **pray** | present | I | | | | | therefore *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **go** | present | you | | | | | without further delay | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | infinitive | I *not said here* | a audience of the King | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **wish** | present | a snake | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a snake *not said here* | King's 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/11/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)