The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 17

The squire, however, and his wife and the steward, had much to say to each other about the terrible man they had got, and all were agreed that they must get rid of him in some way or other.

Who acts: squire, wife · What happens: have, say, get, agree · To what, where: each, terrible man, all, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 squire	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 steward	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 steward	det
11	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	much	much	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 each	case
18	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	16 say	obl
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 each	fixed
20	about	about	ADP	_	23 man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
26	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 man	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 agreed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 agreed	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 agreed	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 agreed	aux:pass
31	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 agreed	advcl
36	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 get	xcomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 rid	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 way	case
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 way	det
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 other	cc
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 way	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the squire				however property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the squire not said here		each		about the terrible man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	get	past · perfect	wife	the terrible man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	agree speech: agree	past · passive		all				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
5	get	must	wife			some way	rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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