The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 13

‘She shall be my wife,’ said he, ‘who is at once the poorest and the richest.’

Who acts: woman, wife, son · What happens: be, say · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, wife, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wife	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wife	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 poorest	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poorest	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 poorest	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 poorest	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 poorest	cop
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 poorest	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 poorest	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poorest	det
18	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 said	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 richest	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 richest	det
21	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 poorest	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	woman	my wife		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	son		once, poor property	tree rules
4	be		son not said here			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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