English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 3

The wife of the farmer was a very foolish woman, who had been a widow when he married her; the farmer was foolish enough, too, and it is hard to say which of the two was the more foolish.

Who acts: wife, foolish woman, man, farmer, two · What happens: be, marry, say · To what, where: foolish woman, widow, wife · 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, foolish woman, man, farmer), 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 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woman	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 farmer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woman	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 foolish	advmod
9	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 widow	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 widow	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 widow	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 widow	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 widow	det
16	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woman	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 married	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 married	nsubj
19	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 widow	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 married	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 foolish	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 farmer	det
23	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 foolish	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 foolish	cop
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	conj
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 foolish	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 too	punct
28	too	too	ADV	_	25 foolish	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hard	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hard	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hard	expl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hard	cop
33	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 foolish	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 say	mark
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hard	csubj
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 say	obj
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	43 foolish	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 two	det
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 foolish	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 foolish	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 foolish	det
42	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 foolish	advmod
43	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 which	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wife of the farmer	a foolish woman and a widow		tree rules
2	is a	past · perfect	a foolish woman and a widow	a widow		tree rules
3	marry	past	man	wife		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	is	past	the farmer		enough, foolish property	tree rules
5	is	present	the farmer not said here		hard property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
7	is	past	the two		foolish 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: «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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