The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 12

He could not marry a poor woman, and he did not wish for a rich one.

Who acts: son · What happens: not marry, not wish · To what, where: poor woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 marry	advmod
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wish	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wish	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 wish	advmod
13	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 one	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wish	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	could	son	a poor woman					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
2	not wish	past · do-support	son					for a rich one	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for one=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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