The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 55

Unlike most women—who think that anything that belongs to them must be better than what belongs to anyone else—each thought her husband the more foolish of the two.

Who acts: anything, each · What happens: think, belong, be · To what, where: women, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (anything, each), 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	Unlike	unlike	ADP	_	3 women	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 women	amod
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	obl
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 better	mark
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 better	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 belongs	nsubj
10	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 anything	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 belongs	obl
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 better	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 better	cop
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 think	ccomp
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 belongs	mark
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 belongs	nsubj
18	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 better	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 anyone	case
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 belongs	obl
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 anyone	advmod
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 husband	nmod:poss
26	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 more	det
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 foolish	advmod
29	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thought	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 two	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 two	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 foolish	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present				unlike most women	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	belong	present			women = woman		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	is	must	anything			good property	tree rules
4	belong	present				to anyone	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	each	two's husband			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot husband=Theme

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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