The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 53
After you had vanished, no one knew where, your poor wife grew more and more wretched, and would neither eat nor drink.
Who acts: you, one, poor wife · What happens: vanish, know, grow, eat, drink
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 (you, one, poor 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 vanished | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | aux |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 knew | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 knew | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knew | conj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 grew | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wretched | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 wretched | advmod |
| 18 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 more | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | aux |
| 22 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 23 eat | advmod |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | parataxis |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 drink | cc |
| 25 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past · perfect | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | your poor wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | would | neither property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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