The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 17

But he answered, ‘I cannot become your husband yet, for I have still far to travel.

Who acts: proclamation, I · What happens: answer, not become, have, travel · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proclamation, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 become	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 become	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 become	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 become	advmod
9	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 become	xcomp
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 become	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 become	parataxis
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 have	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 travel	mark
20	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 far	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	proclamation				tree rules
2	not become	can	I	your husband	yet		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	I			far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	travel	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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