The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 51

She was, besides, one of those unfortunate people who invariably fancy that the possessions of other people must be better than their own.

Who acts: wife, unfortunate people, possessions · What happens: be, fancy, possess · To what, where: one, other people

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 (wife, unfortunate people, possessions), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
4	besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 one	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 people	det
9	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fancy	nsubj
12	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	13 fancy	advmod
13	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 people	acl:relcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 better	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 possessions	det
16	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 better	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 possessions	nmod
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 better	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 better	cop
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 fancy	advcl
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 own	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 own	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 better	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wife	one	of that unfortunate people	tree rules
2	fancy	present	that unfortunate people		invariably property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	must	the possessions of other people		than possessions's own; good property	tree rules
4	possess			other people		nom possession «act transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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