The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 25

'Nonsense!' said her husband; 'women always think they know best.

Who acts: husband, women · What happens: say, think, know · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, women), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 think	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 think	advmod
12	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 think	ccomp
15	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 know	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kirsten's husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	women	always property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	know	present	women = woman	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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