--- title: ‘I’ll have the king of Ulster for a husband,’ says one; ‘and I’ll ha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I’ll have the king of Ulster for a husband,’ says one; ‘and I’ll have the king of Munster,’ says another; ‘and,’ says the youngest, ‘I’ll have no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway.’ Who acts: I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:12:109 # text = ‘I’ll have the king of Ulster for a husband,’ says one; ‘and I’ll have the king of Munster,’ says another; ‘and,’ says the youngest, ‘I’ll have no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Ulster Ulster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Munster Munster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 ‘ ‘ SYM # Number=Sing 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 35 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 43 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 44 det _ _ 44 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 Bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | future | I | the king of Ulster | | | | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | one | | | | ‘ *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | future | I | the king of Munster | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | another | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | future | I | no husband but the Brown Bear of Norway | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/110/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/)