The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 117

However, they were so anxious that he should marry, that they willingly accepted Thakane as their daughter-in-law, though she did bring any marriage portion with her.

Who acts: parents, Masilo, daughter · What happens: be, marry, accept, bring · To what, where: Thakane, marriage portion

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 (parents, Masilo, daughter), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 anxious	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 anxious	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 anxious	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 anxious	advmod
6	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 marry	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marry	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 anxious	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 accepted	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 accepted	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 accepted	nsubj
14	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	15 accepted	advmod
15	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	conj
16	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 accepted	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	23 law	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 law	nsubj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 law	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 law	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 in	punct
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 accepted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bring	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 bring	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bring	aux
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 marry	conj
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 portion	det
30	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 portion	compound
31	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	parents = parent		anxious, however property	tree rules
2	marry	should	Masilo			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	accept	past	parents = parent	Thakane	as law; willingly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thakane=Theme as law=Attribute
4	bring	past · do-support	daughter	any marriage portion	with servant	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent portion=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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