The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 68
It is only fair to give her a husband who gives me a son.’
Who acts: It, husband · What happens: be, give · To what, where: husband, Grannonia, son, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fair | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 fair | advmod |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fair | csubj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gives | nsubj |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 husband | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gives | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | a husband | Grannonia | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient husband=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | present | a husband | a son | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=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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