The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 5
A better husband you will not find.”
Who acts: better husband · What happens: not find
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (better husband), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 husband | det |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 husband | amod |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 find | advmod |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | future | a better husband | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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