The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 42

The husband was not very sure about this, although otherwise he was always ready to give in to her.

Who acts: husband, man · What happens: not be, be, give in · To what, where: tailor

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 (husband, man), 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 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sure	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sure	advmod
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sure	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ready	punct
10	although	although	SCONJ	_	15 ready	mark
11	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	15 ready	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ready	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	cop
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 ready	advmod
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sure	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 give	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the husband		about this; sure property	tree rules
2	is	past	man		always, otherwise, ready property	tree rules
3	give in	to-infinitive	man not said here	tailor		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot

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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