The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 108
His new wife was a beautiful woman, but so proud and overbearing that she couldn’t stand any rival to her beauty.
Who acts: new wife, wife · What happens: be, not stand · To what, where: beautiful woman, rival
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new wife, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proud | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 proud | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 proud | advmod |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 overbearing | cc |
| 13 | overbearing | overbearing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 proud | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 stand | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stand | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stand | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 stand | advmod |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 overbearing | ccomp |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 rival | det |
| 20 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 beauty | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | King's new wife | a beautiful woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stand | could | wife | any rival | to wife's beauty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rival=Stimulus |
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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