The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 152

He had lost two years of happiness, but comforted himself with thinking that his wife was a clever spinner, and, what was much more rare, a brave and good woman.

Who acts: Guilbert, wife · What happens: lose, comfort, think, be · To what, where: Guilbert, clever spinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guilbert, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 happiness	case
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 comforted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 comforted	cc
10	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 comforted	obj
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 thinking	mark
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 comforted	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 spinner	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spinner	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spinner	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 spinner	det
19	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spinner	amod
20	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinking	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rare	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rare	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rare	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 rare	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rare	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 rare	advmod
28	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lost	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 woman	det
31	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 good	cc
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brave	conj
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rare	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	Guilbert		year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	comfort	past	Guilbert not said here	Guilbert			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	gerund	Guilbert not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Guilbert's wife	a clever spinner			tree rules
5	is	past				a brave woman obl; rare property	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 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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