The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 30

Surely he must be a man now, he thought, or there would be no talk of a wife for him, and his mind dwelt all day upon his promised bride, and what she would be like when he beheld her.

Who acts: man, talk, mind, wife · What happens: be, think, dwell, promise, behold, talk · To what, where: man, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, talk, mind, 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 man	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 thought	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 be	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 be	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 be	expl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 talk	det
17	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 be	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wife	det
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talk	nmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dwelt	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dwelt	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mind	nmod:poss
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dwelt	nsubj
27	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dwelt	obl:unmarked
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 bride	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bride	nmod:poss
32	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bride	amod
33	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dwelt	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 what	cc
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 dwelt	parataxis
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 like	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 like	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 like	cop
40	like	like	SCONJ	_	43 beheld	mark
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 beheld	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 beheld	nsubj
43	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 what	acl:relcl
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 beheld	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	man	a man			surely property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	man			now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	would	no talk of a wife for man		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dwell	past	man's mind			day	upon man's promised bride	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bride=Location
5	promise speech: promise	participle						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	behold	past	man	mind				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	talk		a wife for man					nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	mind		man					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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