The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 116

At first he did not know what to make of this strange feeling, for all his life he had hated women, and had refused several brides whom his parents had chosen for him.

Who acts: Masilo · What happens: not know, make, hate, refuse, choose · To what, where: women, several brides, parents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 know	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 make	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 feeling	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 feeling	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feeling	amod
13	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 life	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 life	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 life	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hated	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hated	aux
21	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 life	parataxis
22	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hated	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 refused	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 refused	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 refused	aux
26	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 know	conj
27	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brides	amod
28	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 refused	obj
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 chosen	obl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 parents	nmod:poss
31	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 chosen	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 chosen	aux
33	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 brides	acl:relcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 chosen	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Masilo			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	to-infinitive			of this strange feeling	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product
3	hate	past · perfect	Masilo	women		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	refuse	past · perfect	Masilo not said here	several brides		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme
5	choose	past · perfect · passive		Masilo's parents	for Masilo; several brides obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for he=Beneficiary

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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