The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 98

When she hears that, she will be sure to ask you what has become of the money and the fine clothes she gave us on our marriage, and you will answer, ‘before he died he sold everything.’”

Who acts: wife, you, money, our · What happens: hear, be, ask, become, give, answer · To what, where: that, you, fine clothes, us, marriage, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, you, money, our), 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	3 hears	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hears	nsubj
3	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hears	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hears	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ask	mark
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ask	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 become	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 ask	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 money	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 become	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clothes	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clothes	det
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothes	amod
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 money	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 clothes	acl:relcl
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 gave	iobj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 marriage	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 marriage	nmod:poss
28	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 answer	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 answer	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 answer	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 answer	aux
33	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sold	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 sold	punct
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 died	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 died	nsubj
38	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sold	advcl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sold	nsubj
40	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 answer	parataxis
41	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 sold	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 answer	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	wife	that				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	is	future	wife				sure property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	wife not said here		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	become	present · perfect					of the money and the fine clothes	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	give	past	wife	the fine clothes not said here	us	our marriage		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Theme on marriage=Asset
6	answer speech: assert	future	you					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	die	past	money					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	sell	past	money	everything				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
9	marry		our					nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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