The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 87

But the sisters, who had always been rather jealous of Helga, were secretly pleased that their bridegrooms should outshine hers.

Who acts: sisters, bridegrooms · What happens: be, outshine · To what, where: Helga

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, bridegrooms), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 pleased	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pleased	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 jealous	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 jealous	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 jealous	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 jealous	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 jealous	cop
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 jealous	advmod
10	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sisters	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Helga	case
12	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 jealous	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sisters	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pleased	cop
15	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	16 pleased	advmod
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 outshine	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bridegrooms	nmod:poss
19	bridegrooms	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 outshine	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 outshine	aux
21	outshine	outshine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pleased	advcl
22	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 outshine	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the sisters		of Helga; always, jealous property	tree rules
2	is	past	the sisters		pleased, secretly property	tree rules
3	outshine	should	sisters's bridegrooms	Helga		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot her=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 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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