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 | where | when | 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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