The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 109

‘I’ll have the king of Ulster for a husband,’ says one; ‘and I’ll have the king of Munster,’ says another; ‘and,’ says the youngest, ‘I’ll have no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway.’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, say · To what, where: king, one, another, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ulster	case
8	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 husband	det
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 says	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ‘	punct
17	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Munster	case
25	Munster	Munster	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 king	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
28	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 have	parataxis
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 says	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 says	punct
31	‘	‘	SYM	Number=Sing	35 says	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 says	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 and	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 says	punct
35	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 youngest	det
37	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 says	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 have	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 have	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 have	nsubj
41	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 have	aux
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 says	ccomp
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 husband	det
44	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 have	obj
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 Bear	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Bear	det
47	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Bear	amod
48	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 husband	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Norway	case
50	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Bear	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	I	the king of Ulster	for a husband	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present		one	‘ obl	tree rules
3	have	future	I	the king of Munster		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
4	say speech: assert	present		another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic
5	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	future	I	no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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