The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 3

After some time had gone by the man married again, and he chose a widow with one daughter who was ugly and wicked, and her mother was ugly and wicked too.

Who acts: man, one daughter, mother · What happens: go, marry, choose, be · To what, where: widow

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 (man, one daughter, mother), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 married	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 married	nsubj
9	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 married	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chose	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chose	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chose	nsubj
14	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 widow	det
16	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chose	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 daughter	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 daughter	nummod
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chose	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ugly	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ugly	cop
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 daughter	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wicked	cc
24	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ugly	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ugly	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ugly	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ugly	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ugly	cop
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chose	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wicked	cc
32	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ugly	conj
33	too	too	ADV	_	30 ugly	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect			time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	past	the man		again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	choose	past	man	a widow		with one daughter	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Theme
4	is	past	one daughter			ugly property	tree rules
5	be		one daughter not said here				tree rules
6	is	past	widow's mother			ugly property	tree rules
7	be		widow's mother not said here				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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