English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 52

The third said: “Let her have for husband but a poor country cobbler.”

Who acts: third · What happens: say, let, have · To what, where: third · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
6	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 husband	case
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 cobbler	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cobbler	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cobbler	amod
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cobbler	compound
15	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 husband	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the third			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		third		tree rules
3	have in a quote	infinitive	third not said here		for husband but a poor country cobbler	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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