The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 20

So the women quarrelled just as much as they did before, and no one ever knew whose husband was the most foolish.

Who acts: women, villagers, one, husband · What happens: quarrell, do, know, be · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (women, villagers, one, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 quarrelled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 women	det
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quarrelled	nsubj
4	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quarrelled	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 did	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 much	advcl
11	before	before	ADV	_	10 did	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knew	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 knew	advmod
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quarrelled	conj
18	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 foolish	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 foolish	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 foolish	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 foolish	advmod
23	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knew	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quarrelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past	the women	much			tree rules
2	do	past	villagers = villager			before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	no one		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	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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