The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 58

‘See what sort of a wife I have.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, have, sort · To what, where: sort, wife

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wife	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	what sort of a wife	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
2	have	present	I	a wife not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	sort			a wife	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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