The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 60

‘Oh, then,’ says she, ‘as if I was not widow enough before, there he is going away from me to be married to that scaly woman.

Who acts: mother, I, Maurice · What happens: say, not be, go, marry · To what, where: widow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, Maurice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1626): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 says	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 she	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 widow	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 widow	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 widow	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 widow	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 widow	advmod
16	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	advcl
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 widow	advmod
18	before	before	ADV	_	16 widow	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 widow	punct
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 going	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 says	ccomp
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 away	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 married	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 married	aux:pass
29	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 going	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 woman	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 woman	det
32	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 married	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mother			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a	past	I	widow			before, enough property	tree rules
3	go	present · progressive	Maurice		there		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	to-infinitive · passive	Maurice not said here				to that scaly woman	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to woman=Co-Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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