The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 80
And his wife, though for the moment angry at being beaten, soon thought that a rat son-in-law was what she had always desired.
Who acts: wife, rat son · What happens: beat, think, be, desire · 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 (wife, rat son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moment | amod |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 beaten | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 angry | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moment | punct |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | advmod |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 what | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rat | det |
| 18 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | compound |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | cop |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 desired | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 desired | aux |
| 28 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 29 desired | advmod |
| 29 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | gerund · passive | father's wife not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | father's wife | moment | soon property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | rat son in law | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | desire | past · perfect | wife | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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