English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 57

Well, the ogre's wife wasn't such a bad sort, after all.

Who acts: wife · What happens: not be · To what, where: bad sort

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	12 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 ogre	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sort	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sort	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sort	advmod
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 sort	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sort	det
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sort	amod
12	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sort	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sort	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the ogre's wife	such bad sort			after all		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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