The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 35

The father was a rat from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, outside as well as in, and desired that his daughter should wed among her own people.

Who acts: father, daughter · What happens: be, desire, wed · To what, where: rat, tip

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 (father, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rat	det
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 tip	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tip	det
8	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 nose	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tip	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nose	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tail	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 end	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 outside	punct
19	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 rat	parataxis
20	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 in	cc
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 as	fixed
22	as	as	ADP	_	20 as	fixed
23	in	in	ADV	_	19 outside	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 desired	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 desired	cc
26	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rat	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 wed	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wed	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wed	aux
31	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 desired	ccomp
32	among	among	ADP	_	35 people	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 people	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 wed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the father	a rat	the tip of father's nose to the end of father's tail		tree rules
2	desire	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wed	should	father's daughter			among Daughter's own people	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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