The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 33

Of course, with all these advantages, her parents expected her to make a brilliant marriage, and, as she grew up, they began to look round for a suitable husband.

Who acts: parents, lady · What happens: expect, make, grow up, begin, look round · To what, where: lady, brilliant marriage

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, lady), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	7 advantages	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 advantages	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 advantages	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 advantages	det:predet
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 advantages	det
7	advantages	advantage	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 expected	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 advantages	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 expected	nsubj
11	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 expected	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 expected	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 marriage	det
16	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 marriage	amod
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 grew	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 began	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 grew	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 expected	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 husband	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 husband	det
33	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 husband	amod
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 look	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expect	past	lady's parents	lady	of all advantages	tree rules
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	lady not said here	a brilliant marriage		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset marriage=Product
3	grow up	past	lady			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	parents = parent			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	look round	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here		for a suitable husband; round property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for husband=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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