The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 134

So unhappy was she that she spent all her time wondering how she should get rid of her undesirable husband.

Who acts: feast · What happens: be, spend, wonder, get · To what, where: feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 unhappy	advmod
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 she	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unhappy	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 spent	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spent	nsubj
7	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unhappy	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 time	nmod:poss
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obj
11	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spent	advcl
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 get	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wondering	ccomp
16	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 husband	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 husband	nmod:poss
19	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 husband	amod
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rid	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		feast			tree rules
2	spend	past	feast		time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	feast not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get	should	feast			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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