The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 11

The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wife that can bring you broad, rich lands.

Who acts: you, only thing, wife · What happens: want, become, be, bring · To what, where: only thing, wife, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, only thing, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wife	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 become	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 become	mark
10	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 fat	advmod
12	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 become	xcomp
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 pig	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pig	det
15	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wife	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wife	det
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bring	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	aux
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wife	acl:relcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bring	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lands	punct
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lands	amod
27	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wife	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	you	the only thing not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	become	to-infinitive				fat property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	the only thing	a wife and rich lands			tree rules
4	bring	can	a wife and rich lands		you	broad property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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