The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 80

“That is because it is so fine,” answered she; “you do not want it to be as thick as the rough clothes you wear every day.”

Who acts: That, you, wrinkle · What happens: be, answer, not want, wear · To what, where: last, wrinkle, rough clothes · 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 (That, you, wrinkle), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 fine	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fine	advmod
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	parataxis
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 want	advmod
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fine	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 want	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	23 thick	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 thick	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 thick	advmod
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 want	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 clothes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clothes	det
26	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clothes	amod
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 thick	obl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 wear	nsubj
29	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 clothes	acl:relcl
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wear	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That				fine property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			last			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	not want in a quote	present · do-support	you	wrinkle				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	wrinkle not said here				as the rough clothes; thick property	tree rules
5	wear in a quote	present	you	the rough clothes not said here		day		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source

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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