The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 64

In her eyes he was as ugly and awkward as ever, but he would certainly make a most useful husband, and she could sleep every morning till breakfast time, just like a young lady, and as for the rest of the day, it would not be half long enough for all she meant to do.

Who acts: thing, Barbaik, rest · What happens: be, make, sleep, not be, mean, do · To what, where: eyes, useful husband

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Barbaik, rest), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 eyes	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ugly	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ugly	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ugly	cop
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 ugly	case
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 awkward	cc
9	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ugly	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 awkward	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 make	advmod
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ugly	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 husband	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 useful	advmod
20	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 husband	amod
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sleep	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sleep	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sleep	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sleep	aux
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	parataxis
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 morning	det
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	obl:unmarked
29	till	till	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	compound
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lady	punct
33	just	just	ADV	_	37 lady	advmod
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 lady	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lady	det
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lady	amod
37	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 meant	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 meant	cc
40	as	as	ADP	_	43 rest	case
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 rest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rest	det
43	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 meant	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 day	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rest	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rest	punct
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 meant	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 meant	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 long	advmod
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 long	cop
52	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	53 long	advmod
53	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 meant	advmod
54	enough	enough	ADV	_	53 long	advmod
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 all	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 long	obl
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 meant	nsubj
58	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ugly	advcl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 do	mark
60	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 meant	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing		Barbaik's eyes		ugly property	tree rules
2	be		thing not said here					tree rules
3	make	would	thing	a useful husband			certainly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Product
4	sleep	could	Barbaik			morning; time		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	infinitive					for all; enough, half, long property	tree rules
6	mean	would	rest				as the rest of the day	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	rest not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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