More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 65

By-and-by he thought that he would like to have a wife to keep it all vitty for him.

Who acts: farmer, wife · What happens: think, like, have, keep · To what, where: wife, farmhouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, wife), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 thought	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 vitty	det
20	vitty	vitty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	farmer			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like	would	farmer			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	farmer not said here	a wife		tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	a wife not said here	farmhouse	for farmer	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme vitty=Attribute

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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