The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 52

Many a time her poor husband regretted the day that he had first seen her, and often her meanness and shabby ways put him to shame.

Who acts: poor husband, husband, meanness · What happens: regret, see, put, shame · To what, where: wife, husband

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 (poor husband, husband, meanness), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regretted	obl:unmarked
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 husband	amod
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regretted	nsubj
7	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regretted	obl:unmarked
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 seen	advmod
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 regretted	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
18	often	often	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 meanness	nmod:poss
20	meanness	meanness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ways	cc
22	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ways	amod
23	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 meanness	conj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 regretted	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shame	mark
27	shame	shame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 regretted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	regret	past	wife's poor husband			day; time		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	past · perfect	husband	wife			first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	put	past	wife's meanness and shabby ways		husband		often property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
4	shame	to-infinitive	wife's meanness and shabby ways not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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