The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 47

She knew well that her husband was right, but she could not give up the idea of a cow.

Who acts: Maie, husband · What happens: know, be, not give up · To what, where: idea

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maie, husband), 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	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 right	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 give	advmod
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 give	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 idea	det
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cow	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cow	det
20	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 idea	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Maie		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Maie's husband		right property	tree rules
3	not give up	could	Maie	the idea of a cow		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source

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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