The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 72

“I won’t marry that ugly old wall, which is as old as my grandfather,” sobbed the girl, who had not uttered one word all this time.

Who acts: proper husband, ugly old wall · What happens: not marry, be, sob, not utter · To what, where: ugly old wall, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (proper husband, ugly old wall), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 marry	advmod
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sobbed	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wall	mark
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wall	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wall	amod
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 old	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wall	amod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 grandfather	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandfather	nmod:poss
17	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 old	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
20	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sobbed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 uttered	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 uttered	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 uttered	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 uttered	advmod
27	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 girl	acl:relcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 word	nummod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uttered	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 time	det:predet
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uttered	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not marry in a quote	future	the proper husband = husband	ugly old wall			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	ugly old wall			as my grandfather; old property	tree rules
3	sob	past		the girl			tree rules
4	not utter speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the girl	time		tree rules

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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