The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 67

My father has thirty young daughters, and is a mighty ruler in the underworld, with many castles and great riches.

Who acts: father · What happens: have, be · To what, where: thirty young daughters, mighty ruler, underworld

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	nummod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughters	amod
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ruler	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ruler	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ruler	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ruler	det
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ruler	amod
12	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 underworld	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 underworld	det
15	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ruler	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 castles	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 castles	case
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 castles	amod
19	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ruler	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 riches	cc
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 riches	amod
22	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 castles	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	My father	thirty young daughters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is a	present		a mighty ruler and many castles and great riches		the underworld			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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