The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 36

She had no lack of lovers, but her father’s secret hopes rested on a fine young rat, with moustaches which almost swept the ground, whose family was still nobler and more ancient than his own.

Who acts: Daughter, moustaches, family · What happens: have, rest, sweep, be, lack · To what, where: lack, secret, fine young rat, ground, lovers

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 (Daughter, moustaches, family), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 lack	det
4	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lovers	case
6	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lack	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rested	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 rested	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 secret	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rested	nsubj:pass
13	hopes	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rested	aux:pass
14	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 rat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rat	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rat	amod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rat	amod
19	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rested	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moustaches	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 moustaches	case
22	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rested	advcl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 swept	nsubj
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 swept	advmod
25	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 moustaches	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swept	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nobler	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 family	nmod:poss
30	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nobler	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nobler	cop
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 nobler	advmod
33	nobler	noble	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 ground	acl:relcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ancient	cc
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 ancient	advmod
36	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 nobler	conj
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 own	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 own	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ancient	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Daughter	no lack of lovers				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Patient
2	rest	present · passive		Daughter's father's secret	a fine young rat			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on rat=Location
3	sweep	past	moustaches	the ground			almost property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory
4	is	past	family			still	noble property	tree rules
5	be		family not said here				than father's own	tree rules
6	lack			lovers				nom lack «state transitive»: of=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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