The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 103

For they insist on having all their wedding-clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them.

Who acts: brides · What happens: insist, have, make, use, measure · To what, where: wedding clothes, other world

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brides), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 insist	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 insist	nsubj
3	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 having	mark
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 insist	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 clothes	det:predet
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clothes	nmod:poss
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clothes	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 wedding	punct
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 having	obj
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 clothes	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obl
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 made	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 those	punct
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	18 those	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 those	case
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 having	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 used	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 used	nsubj
21	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 those	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 used	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 world	amod
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 measured	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 measured	cc
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 measured	nsubj:pass
31	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 measured	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 measured	aux:pass
33	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 those	acl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 measured	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 insist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	brides = bride				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	brides = bride not said here	brides's wedding clothes		like those	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
3	make	participle		brides's wedding clothes not said here		for brides = bride; first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for they=Asset
4	use	past	brides = bride				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality
5	have	to-infinitive	brides = bride not said here		the other world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	measure	gerund · passive				for brides = bride	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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