The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 101

“My husband lies dead at home, and he has spent all our money, and sold everything, and I have nothing left to bury him with,” sobbed the wife.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: lie, spend, sell, have, leave, bury · To what, where: money, everything, nothing, wife

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	nsubj
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lies	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spent	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spent	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spent	aux
12	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lies	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 money	det:predet
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 money	nmod:poss
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spent	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sold	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sold	cc
18	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lies	parataxis
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 sold	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sold	parataxis
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 have	obj
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 nothing	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bury	mark
27	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bury	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	25 left	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 sold	punct
32	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sold	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wife	det
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sobbed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie in a quote	present	My husband		dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spend in a quote	present · perfect	husband	our money		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
3	sell in a quote	past		everything		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	wife	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	leave in a quote	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bury in a quote	to-infinitive		money		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	sob	past		the wife		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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