The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 14

When his wife was not doing the housework she used to nurse the baby and cry, remembering the happy days when she lived with her father, who kept seventeen cows and lived quite in the country, and when John used to come courting her in the summer evenings, as smart as smart, with a posy in his buttonhole.

Who acts: wife, prisoner, father, John · What happens: not do, use, cry, remember, live, keep · To what, where: housework, nurse, seventeen cows, country, prisoner

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, prisoner, father, John), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 doing	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 doing	advmod
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 housework	det
8	housework	housework	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 housework	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 nurse	mark
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nurse	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cry	cc
16	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 baby	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remembering	punct
18	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 doing	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 days	det
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 remembering	obj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 lived	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lived	nsubj
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 remembering	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 father	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kept	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 kept	nsubj
30	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 father	acl:relcl
31	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 cows	nummod
32	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kept	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lived	cc
34	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kept	conj
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 lived	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 country	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 country	det
38	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lived	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 used	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 used	cc
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 used	advmod
42	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 used	nsubj
43	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lived	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 come	mark
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 used	xcomp
46	courting	court	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 come	xcomp
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 courting	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 evenings	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 evenings	det
50	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 evenings	compound
51	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 courting	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 smart	punct
53	as	as	ADP	_	54 smart	case
54	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 used	parataxis
55	as	as	ADP	_	56 smart	case
56	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 smart	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 posy	punct
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 posy	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 posy	det
60	posy	posy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 smart	conj
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 buttonhole	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 buttonhole	nmod:poss
63	buttonhole	buttonhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 posy	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past · progressive	blacksmith's wife	the housework				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housework=Eventuality
2	use	past	prisoner	nurse				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Patient
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	prisoner not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	remember	gerund	blacksmith's wife not said here			day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	live	past	prisoner				with prisoner's father	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with father=Location
6	keep	past	prisoner's father	seventeen cows				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
7	live	past	prisoner's father not said here		the country			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
8	use	past	John					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	come	to-infinitive	John not said here					tree rules
10	court	gerund	John not said here	prisoner		evening		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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