The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 91

He was so angry, not merely because he had been deceived, but because he could not get rid of the ugly wretch that was now tied to him for life.

Who acts: brother · What happens: be, not deceive, not get, tie · To what, where: brother, ugly wretch

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	4 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deceived	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 deceived	advmod
7	merely	merely	ADV	_	12 deceived	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 deceived	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 deceived	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 deceived	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 deceived	aux:pass
12	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 angry	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 get	advmod
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 angry	parataxis
20	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 get	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 wretch	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wretch	det
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wretch	amod
24	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rid	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tied	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tied	aux:pass
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 tied	advmod
28	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 wretch	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tied	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 life	case
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tied	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	brother				angry property	tree rules
2	not deceive	past · perfect · passive		brother			merely property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not get	could	brother				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	tie	past · passive		the ugly wretch	brother	now	for life	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to he=Co-Patient

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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