The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 53
But he had not the courage to rule her, and she only got worse and worse.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: have, rule, get · To what, where: courage, wife
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 (husband, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 courage | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courage | det |
| 6 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rule | mark |
| 8 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 courage | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rule | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 got | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worse | cc |
| 17 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 worse | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | husband | the courage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rule | to-infinitive | husband not said here | wife | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Result | ||||
| 3 | get | past | wife | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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