Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 73
If you could only have him for a husband, you would be well provided for indeed.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, provide · To what, where: neighbor, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 provided | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 provided | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 provided | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 provided | aux:pass |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 provided | advmod |
| 15 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 indeed | case |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 provided | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | could | you | neighbor | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | provide | would · passive | you | well property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for indeed=Beneficiary |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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