The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 76
He might well take your part, and be glad to have you for his son-in-law.”
Who acts: father · What happens: take, be, have · To what, where: part, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 part | nmod:poss |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glad | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 glad | cop |
| 10 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 glad | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | might | father | your part | well property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | father not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | father not said here | you | for father's son in law | vn birth-28.2-1 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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