English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 28

But the wife said that her husband was a greater fool for letting her have the money.

Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: say, be, let, have · To what, where: greater fool, wife, money · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, husband), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fool	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fool	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fool	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fool	det
10	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 fool	amod
11	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 letting	mark
13	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 letting	obj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 letting	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 money	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	wife's husband	a greater fool	tree rules
3	let	gerund	the wife not said here	wife	tree rules
4	have	infinitive	wife not said here	the money	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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: «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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