The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 24

“You shall not die,” cried the girl, who was very fond of her husband, for he did not beat her as most girls’ husbands did.

Who acts: You, girl, husband, husbands · What happens: not die, cry, be, not beat, do · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, girl, husband, husbands), 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	_	5 die	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 die	advmod
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fond	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 fond	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fond	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 fond	advmod
15	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 husband	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fond	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beat	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 beat	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beat	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beat	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 beat	advmod
24	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beat	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 girls	amod
28	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 husbands	nmod:poss
29	’	's	PART	_	28 girls	case
30	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beat	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not die in a quote	shall	You			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cry speech: express	past	the girl			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the girl		of girl's husband; fond property	tree rules
4	not beat	past · do-support	husband	girl		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
5	do	past	most girls's husbands			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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