More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 160

The mother was heartily vexed at this, for in those days no lassie had any chance of a good husband unless she was an industrious spinster.

Who acts: lassie, mother, good husband · What happens: vex, have, be, chance · To what, where: mother, this, chance, industrious spinster

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lassie, mother, good husband), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vexed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	aux:pass
4	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	5 vexed	advmod
5	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 vexed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 days	det
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 lassie	det
14	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	conj
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 chance	det
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 husband	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 husband	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 husband	amod
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chance	nmod
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 spinster	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spinster	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spinster	cop
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 spinster	det
26	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spinster	amod
27	spinster	spinster	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive		the mother	this		heartily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	have	past	no lassie	any chance of a good husband		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	mother	a industrious spinster				tree rules
4	chance		a good husband					nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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: «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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