The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 58

And the husband did as he was bid, though he wondered what use a cow-house could be, as they had no cows to put in it.

Who acts: husband, words · What happens: do, bid, wonder, use, be, put · To what, where: husband, cow house, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, words), 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	_	4 did	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 bid	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bid	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bid	aux:pass
8	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wondered	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 wondered	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wondered	nsubj
12	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 use	nsubj
14	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wondered	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cow	punct
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 house	acl:relcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 cows	det
26	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the husband				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		husband			tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	past	husband				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	use	present		a cow house			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
5	is	could	words = word	a cow house not said here		have property	tree rules
6	put	to-infinitive	words = word not said here		house		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination

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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