The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 36

As they went home from the church that day they decided to wager with each other as to whose husband was the most stupid, and the one who, on the following Sunday, should be judged to have played her husband the greatest trick should thereafter go free from paying, and each of the two others would give twopence for their Sunday’s half-pint.

Who acts: three, husband, greatest trick, each · What happens: go, decide, wager, be, follow, judge · To what, where: church, one, husband, twopence

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 (three, husband, greatest trick, each), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 decided	obl:unmarked
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 decided	nsubj
11	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wager	mark
13	wager	wager	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 decided	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 wager	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 stupid	mark
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 husband	nmod:poss
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stupid	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stupid	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stupid	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 stupid	advmod
24	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wager	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 one	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	parataxis
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 judged	nsubj:pass
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Sunday	punct
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 Sunday	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sunday	det
33	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 Sunday	amod
34	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 who	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Sunday	punct
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 judged	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 judged	aux:pass
38	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 one	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	41 played	mark
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 played	aux
41	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 judged	xcomp
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 husband	nmod:poss
43	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 played	obj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 trick	det
45	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 trick	amod
46	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	nsubj
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
48	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	49 go	advmod
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 husband	acl:relcl
50	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 go	xcomp
51	from	from	SCONJ	_	52 paying	mark
52	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 free	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 give	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 give	cc
55	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	61 give	nsubj
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 others	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 others	det
58	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 others	nummod
59	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 each	nmod
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 give	aux
61	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 judged	conj
62	twopence	twopence	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 give	obj
63	for	for	ADP	_	69 pint	case
64	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 Sunday	nmod:poss
65	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 pint	nmod:poss
66	’s	's	PART	_	65 Sunday	case
67	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	69 pint	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 half	punct
69	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 give	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	three		the church		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_Location
2	decide	past	three			day		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wager not said to happen	to-infinitive	three not said here				with each	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	husband				stupid property	tree rules
5	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	judge	should · passive		the one				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
7	play	to-infinitive · perfect		tavern's husband				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
8	go	should	the greatest trick	tavern's husband not said here			free, thereafter property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location husband=Theme
9	pay	gerund	the greatest trick not said here					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	give	would	each	twopence			for three's Sunday's half pint	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent twopence=Theme for pint=Asset

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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