The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 74

Her husband could not see anything to snip at; but then he was so stupid that was not surprising!

Who acts: husband, that · What happens: not see, snip, be, not be · To what, where: anything

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 (husband, that), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 see	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 snip	mark
8	snip	snip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 anything	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 snip	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stupid	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 stupid	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stupid	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stupid	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stupid	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 stupid	advmod
16	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 surprising	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 surprising	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 surprising	advmod
20	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stupid	parataxis
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	wool's husband	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
2	snip	to-infinitive	wool's husband not said here	anything not said here			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	husband		then	stupid property	tree rules
4	not is	past	that			surprising property	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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