The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 18

At this the wives both confessed that they had each wished to prove that her husband was stupider than the other.

Who acts: people, husband · What happens: confess, have, wish, prove, be · To what, where: each

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 wives	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wives	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wives	det
4	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 confessed	obl
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 confessed	advmod
6	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 confessed	ccomp
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 had	obj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 each	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 prove	mark
13	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 stupider	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stupider	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stupider	cop
18	stupider	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 prove	xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 other	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stupider	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	confess	past			at this wives; both property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	people	each		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
3	wish	participle				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	prove	to-infinitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	wife's husband		than the other; stupid 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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