The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 103

I am the son of a rich merchant, and desire above all things to have you for my wife.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, have · To what, where: son, you

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 son	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 merchant	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 merchant	amod
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 desire	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 desire	cc
11	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	appos
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 things	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 things	det
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 desire	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 things	acl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the son				of a rich merchant	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				for my wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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