The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 71

He must be a man of immense wealth, and as he is so devoted to you, perhaps you might do worse than marry him!”

Who acts: Wali, you · What happens: be, do, marry · To what, where: man, you, Wali

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 man	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wealth	case
7	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wealth	amod
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 devoted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 devoted	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 devoted	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 devoted	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 devoted	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 devoted	advmod
15	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 devoted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	22 do	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 devoted	conj
23	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 do	advmod
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 marry	mark
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 do	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 marry	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	must	Wali	a man		of immense wealth	tree rules
2	is	present	Wali		you	devoted property	tree rules
3	do	might	you			badly, perhaps property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	marry	infinitive	you not said here	Wali			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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