The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 72

For a long time he kept silence about it; but one day, when he had been complaining of her absence, she said to him: “Dear husband, I am bound to go, even against my will, and there is only one way to stop me.

Who acts: husband, girl, Dear husband, one way · What happens: keep, complain, say, be, go, stop · To what, where: silence, husband, girl · 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, girl, Dear husband, one way), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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