The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 62

And because they were self-willed and conceited, and would not listen to good advice, they and their children have been the servants of men to this very day.

Who acts: weddings · What happens: will, conceit, not listen, be · To what, where: weddings, servants

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weddings), 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	_	7 willed	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 willed	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 willed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 willed	aux:pass
5	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 willed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 self	punct
7	willed	will	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 conceited	cc
9	conceited	conceit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 willed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 listen	advmod
14	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 willed	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 advice	case
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 advice	amod
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 servants	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 servants	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 children	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 they	conj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 servants	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 servants	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 servants	det
26	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 listen	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 men	case
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 servants	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 day	advmod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 willed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	will	past · passive		weddings = wedding			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2	conceit	participle					tree rules
3	not listen	would			day	to good advice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme
4	is a	present · perfect	weddings = wedding	the servants		of men	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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