The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 78

The wife complains of him bitterly enough, and scolds my dear maiden when she takes her father’s part.”

Who acts: wife · What happens: complain, scold, take · To what, where: part

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (wife), 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 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 complains	nsubj
3	complains	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 complains	obl
6	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 complains	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 bitterly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scolds	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scolds	cc
10	scolds	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 complains	conj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 maiden	nmod:poss
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maiden	amod
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 scolds	xcomp
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 takes	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 takes	nsubj
16	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 scolds	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 part	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takes	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 complains	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 complains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	present	the wife		of father; bitterly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scold	present	the wife not said here		maiden property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	present	wife	wife's father's part		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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