The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 14

Would you like to have the most beautiful woman in the world for your wife?’

Who acts: you · What happens: like, have · To what, where: beautiful woman, world

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 beautiful	advmod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the beautiful woman		the world		for your wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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