The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 338
‘Dear Seagull, will you have me for a husband?’ and he held out his hand.
Who acts: Dear Seagull, husband · What happens: have, hold out · To what, where: me, hand
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 (Dear Seagull, husband), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Seagull | amod |
| 3 | Seagull | seagull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Seagull | punct |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 husband | det |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 held | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | Dear Seagull | me | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold out | past | husband | husband's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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 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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