The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 23

We offered you a good and hard- working wife, and you would have none of her.

Who acts: We, you · What happens: offer, work, have · To what, where: good working wife, you, none

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 offered	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wife	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hard	cc
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	conj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hard	punct
9	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wife	amod
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offered	parataxis
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 have	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 none	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	offer	past	We	a good working wife	you	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal wife=Theme
2	work	gerund				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	would	you	none		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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