The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 36

It was not that the fagot-maker was not, perhaps, more vexed than his wife, but that she teased him, and that he was of the humor of a great many others, who love wives to speak well, but think those very importunate who are continually doing so.

Who acts: tongue, woman, God, great many others · What happens: not be, tease, be, love, speak, think · To what, where: God, wives, those · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue, woman, God, great many others), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 vexed	nsubj:outer
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 vexed	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 vexed	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 not	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maker	det
6	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maker	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fagot	punct
8	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 not	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 not	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 vexed	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 not	punct
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perhaps	punct
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 vexed	advmod
15	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 wife	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vexed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 teased	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 teased	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 teased	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 teased	nsubj
23	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 vexed	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 teased	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 humor	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 humor	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 humor	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 humor	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 humor	cop
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 humor	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 humor	det
32	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vexed	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 others	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 others	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 others	amod
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 others	amod
37	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 humor	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 love	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 love	nsubj
40	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 others	parataxis
41	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 love	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 speak	mark
43	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 wives	acl
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 speak	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 think	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 think	cc
47	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 love	conj
48	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 think	obl
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 importunate	advmod
50	importunate	importunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 those	appos
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 doing	nsubj
52	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 doing	aux
53	continually	continually	ADV	_	54 doing	advmod
54	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 importunate	ccomp
55	so	so	ADV	_	54 doing	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	tongue		than God's wife; vex property	tree rules
2	tease	past	woman	God		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is	past	God		of the humor; of a great many others	tree rules
4	love	present	a great many others	wives		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	a great many others not said here	wives not said here	well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	infinitive	a great many others not said here	those		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do	present · progressive			continually property	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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