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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 6

‘Ah, so you know about that,’ replied he; ‘unluckily Marzinne wants a brother-in-law who has more pounds than I have pence.’

Who acts: you, Bernez, Marzinne, law, I · What happens: know, reply, want, have · To what, where: brother, more pounds, pence

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Bernez, Marzinne, law), 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

punctdiscoursepunctadvmodnsubjccompcaseoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisdetobjpunctcasepunctconjnsubjacl:relclamodobjmarknsubjadvclobjpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTAhINTJ,PUNCTsoADVyouPRONknowVERBaboutADPthatPRON,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBhePRON;PUNCT‘PUNCTunluckilyADVMarzinnePROPNwantsVERBaDETbrotherNOUN-PUNCTinADP-PUNCTlawNOUNwhoPRONhasVERBmoreADJpoundsNOUNthanSCONJIPRONhaveVERBpenceNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_6 knowpunct
2AhahINTJ_6 knowdiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Ahpunct
4sosoADV_6 knowadvmod
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 knownsubj
6knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 repliedccomp
7aboutaboutADP_8 thatcase
8thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 knowobl
9,,PUNCT_6 knowpunct
10’'PUNCT_11 repliedpunct
11repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 repliednsubj
13;;PUNCT_17 wantspunct
14‘'PUNCT_17 wantspunct
15unluckilyunluckilyADV_16 Marzinneadvmod
16MarzinneMarzinnePROPNNumber=Sing17 wantsnsubj
17wantswantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 repliedparataxis
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 brotherdet
19brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing17 wantsobj
20--PUNCT_23 lawpunct
21ininADP_23 lawcase
22--PUNCT_21 inpunct
23lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing19 brotherconj
24whowhoPRONPronType=Rel25 hasnsubj
25hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 lawacl:relcl
26moremoreADJDegree=Cmp27 poundsamod
27poundspoundNOUNNumber=Plur25 hasobj
28thanthanSCONJ_30 havemark
29IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 havensubj
30havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 poundsadvcl
31pencepenceNOUNNumber=Sing30 haveobj
32..PUNCT_17 wantspunct
33’'PUNCT_17 wantspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpresentyouabout thatvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus
2reply speech: assertpastBernezvn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3wantpresentMarzinnea brother and lawvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme
4havepresentlawmore poundsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Patient
5havepresentIpencevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pence=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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