The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 28
“That woman who was to have been your wife has married another man!”
What happens: marry · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 married | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 married | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | past · perfect · passive | that woman | 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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