The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 67

But she wanted a husband who could answer when he was spoken to, not one who would stand up stiffly and look respectable--that would be too dull.

Who acts: princess, husband, one, that · What happens: want, answer, speak, stand up, look, be · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, husband, one, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 wanted	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 husband	det
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 answer	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 answer	aux
8	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 husband	acl:relcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 spoken	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spoken	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux:pass
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 answer	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 spoken	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 stand	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stand	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stand	aux
19	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 stand	compound:prt
21	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	19 stand	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stand	conj
24	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 look	xcomp
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 dull	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 dull	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dull	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 dull	cop
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 dull	advmod
30	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	princess	a husband		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	could	a husband			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past · passive		husband		tree rules
4	stand up not said to happen	would	one		stiffly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	infinitive	one not said here		respectable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	would	that		dull property	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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