The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 175

In vain did his wife urge every objection; the more she argued, the more determined was her husband.

Who acts: plan, determined · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, determined), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 argued	csubj:pass
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 urge	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 urge	compound
6	urge	urge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 objection	det
8	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 argued	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 more	det
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 argued	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 argued	nsubj
13	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 argued	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 determined	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 determined	advmod
17	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 husband	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 husband	cop
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 husband	nmod:poss
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 argued	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	plan						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the determined	plan's husband					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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