The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 35

His wife felt very miserable to think that their beloved redbreast had been sacrificed for nothing, and begged him to try a little bit.

Who acts: wife · What happens: feel, think, sacrifice, beg, try · To what, where: beloved redbreast, man, little bit · 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 (wife), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 miserable	advmod
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 miserable	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 sacrificed	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 redbreast	nmod:poss
10	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 redbreast	amod
11	redbreast	redbreast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sacrificed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sacrificed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sacrificed	aux:pass
14	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 think	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 sacrificed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 try	mark
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bit	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bit	amod
25	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 try	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	man's wife			miserable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	man's wife not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sacrifice	past · perfect · passive		brothers's beloved redbreast		for nothing	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	man's wife not said here		man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	man's wife not said here	a little bit			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Eventuality

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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