More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 24

The girl thought that was funny, and all her friends told her there must be something wrong with her husband, some great deformity that made him want not to be seen.

Who acts: girl, that, friends, something, great deformity, friend · What happens: think, be, tell, make, want, not see · To what, where: girl, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that, friends, something), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 funny	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 friends	det:predet
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friends	nmod:poss
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 be	expl
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 be	nsubj
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 something	amod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 husband	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrong	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deformity	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 deformity	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deformity	amod
25	deformity	deformity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 something	appos
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 deformity	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 seen	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 seen	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 want	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the girl					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	that				funny property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	girl's friends		girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be	must	something			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past	some great deformity	friend				tree rules
6	want	infinitive	friend not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	not see not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	friend not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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