The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 54

The men, who worked under the same master, were quite good friends, but the wives were always quarrelling, and the subject they quarrelled most about was—which of the two had the stupidest husband.

Who acts: men, wives, subject, two · What happens: work, be, quarrell, have · To what, where: same master, good friends

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, wives, subject, two), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 friends	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worked	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 worked	nsubj
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 men	acl:relcl
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 master	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 master	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 master	amod
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 men	punct
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 friends	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 friends	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 friends	amod
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 quarrelling	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 quarrelling	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wives	det
18	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 quarrelling	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 quarrelling	aux
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 quarrelling	advmod
21	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 friends	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 quarrelled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 quarrelled	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 subject	det
25	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quarrelled	nsubj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 quarrelled	nsubj
27	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 friends	parataxis
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 quarrelled	advmod
29	about	about	SCONJ	_	30 was	mark
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 quarrelled	advcl
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 had	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 two	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 two	det
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 friends	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 husband	det
38	stupidest	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 husband	amod
39	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 friends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	past	the men		the same master		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the men	good friends			tree rules
3	quarrell	past · progressive	the wives			always property	tree rules
4	quarrell	past	the subject				tree rules
5	be	past	the subject not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	the two	good friends			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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