The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 6
‘You have the best wife in Erin, and the best horse in Erin.
Who acts: You · What happens: have · To what, where: best wife, Erin
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Erin | case |
| 8 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 horse | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 horse | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 horse | amod |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Erin | case |
| 15 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | the best wife | Erin | 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 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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