The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 142

‘Well,’ replied the owl, ‘you see I should like to be free too; but this can only be if one of you will offer me his hand in marriage.’

Who acts: you, I, this, one · What happens: reply, see, like, be, offer · To what, where: owl, one, hand, me, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, this, one), 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	_	5 replied	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owl	det
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 free	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 free	cop
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 like	xcomp
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 free	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 offer	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 offer	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 one	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 one	aux
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 one	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 one	cop
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 one	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 offer	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 offer	aux
30	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 offer	obj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 offer	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 marriage	case
35	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 offer	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the owl				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent owl=Topic
2	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				free property	tree rules
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	can	this	one			of you	tree rules
6	offer	future	one	command's hand	me	marriage		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal 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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