The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 22

Then she turned to her sons and said: ‘But this is not enough, my sons, I must have another proof as to what sort of wives you have chosen.

Who acts: linen, this, I, you · What happens: turn, say, not be, have, choose, sort · To what, where: proof, wives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (linen, this, I, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sons	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sons	nmod:poss
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct
11	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 enough	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 enough	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 enough	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 enough	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sons	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sons	nmod:poss
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 enough	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	conj
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 proof	det
24	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 sort	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
27	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	28 sort	det
28	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 proof	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 wives	case
30	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sort	nmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 chosen	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 chosen	aux
33	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 wives	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	linen		then	to linen's sons result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	linen not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	this			my sons obl; enough property	tree rules
4	have	must	I	another proof		as what sort of wives	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Patient
5	choose	present · perfect	you	wives not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
6	sort			wives			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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