The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 1

'How would you like to have a husband like that?' asked the queen, laughing.

Who acts: you · What happens: like, have, ask, laugh · To what, where: husband, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 like	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 husband	det
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 husband	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughing	punct
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 asked	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a husband		like that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past			the queen		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
4	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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