English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 27

The farmer was very angry, and he swore that he had never met with such a fool as his wife.

Who acts: farmer, Deary · What happens: be, swear, not meet

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, Deary), 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 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swore	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swore	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swore	nsubj
9	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 met	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 met	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 met	advmod
14	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 swore	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 fool	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 fool	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fool	det
18	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fool	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the farmer	angry property	tree rules
2	swear	past	Deary		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not meet	past · perfect	Deary	with such fool as Deary's wife	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fool=Co-Agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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