More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 36

And then he felt free to go on, and explain he had £70 laid by with the master, and how would she like him for a husband.

Who acts: friend, girl · What happens: feel, go on, explain, have, lay, like · To what, where: 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 (friend, girl), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 felt	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 felt	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 free	advcl
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 explain	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 explain	cc
11	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 felt	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 explain	ccomp
14	£	£	SYM	_	13 had	obj
15	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 £	nummod
16	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 master	case
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 master	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 master	det
20	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 like	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 like	advmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 explain	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 like	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 husband	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 husband	det
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 like	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	friend		then	free property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	go on	to-infinitive	friend not said here				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	explain speech: assert	infinitive	friend not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	friend				tree rules
5	lay	participle	friend not said here			by the master	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by master=Destination
6	like	would	girl	friend		for a husband	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus for husband=Attribute

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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