More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 84

Now the king's wife thought Rushen Coatie would soon die from the scanty food she got, and she was surprised to see her as lively and healthy as ever.

Who acts: wife, Rushen · What happens: think, die, get, be, see · To what, where: scanty food, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Rushen), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 die	nsubj
8	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rushen	flat
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 die	aux
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 die	advmod
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 food	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 food	det
14	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 food	compound
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 die	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 food	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 surprised	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 surprised	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	cop
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 surprised	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 lively	case
27	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 healthy	cc
29	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lively	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 ever	case
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 healthy	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the king's wife			now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	would	Rushen		the scanty food		soon property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from food=Causer
3	get	past	wife	the scanty food not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
4	is	past	wife				surprised property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife			as lively	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as lively=Attribute

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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