The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 9
She was now old enough to govern her own kingdom, but her subjects did not like being ruled by a woman, and said that she must find a husband to help her in managing her affairs.
Who acts: lady, subjects, woman · What happens: be, govern, not like, rule, say, find · To what, where: own kingdom, husband, lady, affairs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lady, subjects, woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 govern | mark |
| 7 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 old | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 govern | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 like | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 14 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 like | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 govern | conj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 ruled | aux:pass |
| 19 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ruled | obl:agent |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 husband | det |
| 31 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 help | mark |
| 33 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 husband | acl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 help | obj |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 managing | mark |
| 36 | managing | manage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 help | advcl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 38 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 managing | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lady | now | enough, old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | govern | to-infinitive | lady not said here | lady's own kingdom | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | lady's subjects | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rule not said to happen | gerund · passive | a woman | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | lady not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | find | must | lady | a husband | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | ||||
| 7 | help | to-infinitive | lady not said here | a husband not said here | lady | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | manage | gerund | lady not said here | lady's affairs | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=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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