The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 53
Naturally, we wish for a son-in-law who, on his side, is greater than all.
Who acts: we · What happens: wish, be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (we), 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 | Naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 4 wish | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 law | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 law | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 law | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 side | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 who | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 greater | cop |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 greater | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | we | for a law; naturally property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for law=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | than all; great property | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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