The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 43

Many were the quarrels which the old rat and his wife had upon the subject, and sometimes they bore on their faces certain marks which looked as if they had not kept to words only.

Who acts: Many quarrels, quarrels, certain marks · What happens: be, rat, have, bore, look, not keep · To what, where: Many quarrels, certain marks, faces, quarrels

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 (Many quarrels, quarrels, certain marks), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quarrels	amod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quarrels	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 quarrels	det
4	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rat	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rat	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rat	amod
8	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quarrels	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wife	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rat	conj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 subject	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 subject	det
15	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bore	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bore	cc
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 bore	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bore	nsubj
20	bore	bore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 faces	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 faces	nmod:poss
23	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bore	obl
24	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 marks	amod
25	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bore	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 marks	acl:relcl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 kept	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 kept	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 kept	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 kept	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 kept	advmod
33	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 looked	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 words	case
35	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 kept	obl
36	only	only	ADV	_	33 kept	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Many quarrels			tree rules
2	rat		the Many quarrels				tree rules
3	have	past	the Many quarrels			upon the subject	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bore	present	quarrels = quarrel	certain marks	quarrels's faces	sometimes property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Location
5	look	past	certain marks				tree rules
6	not keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		quarrels = quarrel		to words	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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