The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 170
‘You are not a fit husband for my daughter.
Who acts: You · What happens: not be · To what, where: fit husband
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 husband | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 husband | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 husband | det |
| 6 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 husband | amod |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | You | a fit husband | for my daughter | tree rules |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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