The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 31

They often talked about how stupid their husbands were, but they could never agree as to which of them had the most stupid one; each one stuck up for her own husband, and maintained that it was he.

Who acts: Wives, husbands, smith · What happens: talk, be, not agree, have, stick up, maintain · To what, where: one, stupid one, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wives, husbands, smith), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 stupid	case
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stupid	advmod
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talked	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husbands	nmod:poss
8	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stupid	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stupid	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 agree	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 agree	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 agree	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 agree	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 agree	advmod
15	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talked	parataxis
16	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 which	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obl
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 agree	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 one	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 stupid	advmod
24	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obj
29	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 one	acl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 stuck	compound:prt
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 husband	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 husband	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 husband	amod
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuck	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 maintained	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 maintained	cc
37	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 he	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 he	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 he	cop
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 maintained	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Wives = wife	each one	often property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	past	Wives's husbands		stupid property	tree rules
3	not agree speech: agree	could	Wives = wife			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past		the stupid one	of Wives = wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	stick up	participle		each one not said here	for tailor's own husband	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	maintain	past	Wives = wife not said here			vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	smith	eye		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 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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