The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 41

And now there was no one he could marry, so he took to despising matrimony.

Who acts: affectation · What happens: marry, be, despise · To what, where: one, matrimony

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affectation), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 was	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 took	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 despising	mark
15	despising	despise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 took	advcl
16	matrimony	matrimony	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 despising	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	could	affectation	no one not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	past	affectation		take property	tree rules
3	despise	gerund	affectation not said here	matrimony		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer matrimony=Stimulus

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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