The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 15

The next day the husband declared that he was very ill, and could not eat anything; but this was only a presence so that he might get what he wanted.

Who acts: husband, this · What happens: declare, be, not eat, get, want · To what, where: anything, presence

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husband	det
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	nsubj
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 ill	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ill	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 ill	advmod
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 declared	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eat	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 eat	advmod
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 declared	conj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 eat	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 presence	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 presence	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 presence	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 presence	cop
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 presence	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 presence	det
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	parataxis
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 get	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 presence	advcl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 get	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wanted	nsubj
32	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 what	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the husband		day		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	husband			ill property	tree rules
3	not eat	could	the husband not said here	anything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	is a	past	this	a presence			tree rules
5	get	might	husband	a presence			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	want	past	husband				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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