The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 95

“I will try everything that is possible,” said the wife, who did not in the least wish her husband to die, but was determined to show that he was more foolish that the other man.

Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: try, be, say, do, die, show · To what, where: everything, least wish · 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 (wife, husband), 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	_	4 try	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 try	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 possible	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 possible	cop
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 everything	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 wish	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 wish	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wish	det
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 wish	amod
21	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	obj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wish	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 die	mark
25	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 husband	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 determined	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 determined	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 determined	cop
29	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 show	mark
31	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 determined	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 foolish	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 foolish	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 foolish	cop
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 foolish	advmod
36	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 show	ccomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 man	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 man	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 foolish	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	future	the wife = wife	everything		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present			possible property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	past	the wife	the least wish and branch's husband		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality
5	die	to-infinitive	the wife not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is	past			determined property	tree rules
7	show	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	husband		foolish 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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