The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 128

Thus she learned in what rank the young gentleman had been born, and next day she poured forth her woes to her father, and begged him to help her to get rid of a husband who was nothing more nor less than a tailor.

Who acts: lad, husband · What happens: learn, rank, bear, pour, beg, help · To what, where: young gentleman, woes, gentleman, lad, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 learned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 rank	mark
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 rank	nsubj
6	rank	rank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gentleman	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gentleman	amod
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 born	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rank	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poured	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poured	cc
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poured	obl:unmarked
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 poured	nsubj
18	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	parataxis
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 poured	advmod
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 woes	nmod:poss
21	woes	woe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 poured	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 father	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poured	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begged	cc
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 help	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 get	mark
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 help	xcomp
34	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 get	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 husband	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 husband	det
37	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rid	obl
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 nothing	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 nothing	cop
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 husband	appos
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 nothing	amod
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	43 less	cc
43	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 more	conj
44	than	than	ADP	_	46 tailor	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 tailor	det
46	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 less	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	lad				thus property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rank	present						vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	bear	past · perfect · passive		the young gentleman				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	pour	past	lad	lad's woes		day	to lad's father; forth property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Patient
5	beg speech: request	past	lad not said here		gentleman			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	help	to-infinitive	lad not said here	lad				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	get	to-infinitive	lad not said here				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	a husband	nothing				tree rules

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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