The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 114

“Well, well!” said Kabo, “but I want to be handsome too, and to have pretty young wives.”

Who acts: Kabo · What happens: say, want, be, have · To what, where: young wives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 want	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 handsome	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 handsome	cop
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 want	xcomp
17	too	too	ADV	_	13 want	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 want	conj
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	23 young	advmod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wives	amod
24	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kabo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	want in a quote	present	Kabo			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Kabo not said here		handsome property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive	Kabo not said here	young wives		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 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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