The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 50

The wife he chose was very wealthy, but she was also very greedy, and however much she had, she always wanted more.

Who acts: brother, wife · What happens: choose, be, have, want · To what, where: wife, more

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wealthy	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wife	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wealthy	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 wealthy	advmod
7	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 greedy	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 greedy	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 greedy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 greedy	cop
12	also	also	ADV	_	14 greedy	advmod
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 greedy	advmod
14	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wealthy	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
17	however	however	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wealthy	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wanted	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 wanted	advmod
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wealthy	parataxis
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 wanted	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wealthy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	past	brother	the wife not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
2	is	past	the wife		wealthy property	tree rules
3	is	past	wife		greedy property	tree rules
4	have	past	wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	want	past	wife	more	always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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