The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 24
Could any one so rich and so beautiful really wish to be his wife?
What happens: wish, be · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | aux |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 rich | advmod |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rich | conj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 wish | advmod |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wife | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wife | cop |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wish | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | man's wife | 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 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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