The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 52

Maie knew well that her husband was only making fun of her, but still her mind was set upon the same subject.

Who acts: Maie, husband · What happens: know, make, set, mind · To what, where: fun, mind, same subject

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. 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	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	_	9 making	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	9 making	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 making	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 making	advmod
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	advcl
10	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fun	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 set	cc
15	still	still	ADV	_	19 set	advmod
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux:pass
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 subject	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 subject	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 subject	amod
23	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Maie				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	past · progressive	Maie's husband	fun of Maie				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product
3	set	past · passive		Maie's mind	the same subject	still		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon subject=Destination
4	mind		Maie					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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