More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 34

He vowed he was lonely without a wife, and had long been in search of one who was a good spinner.

Who acts: laird, one · What happens: vow, be, have · To what, where: search

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laird, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vowed	nsubj
2	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lonely	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	cop
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vowed	ccomp
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vowed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vowed	conj
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 search	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 search	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 search	case
15	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	22 spinner	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 spinner	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 spinner	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spinner	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spinner	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spinner	amod
22	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 search	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	vow	past	laird		without a wife	tree rules
2	is	past	laird		lonely property	tree rules
3	have	past	laird not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle		search	long property	tree rules
5	is	past	one		of a good spinner	tree rules

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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