The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 102

When his wife found out the mistake, she cried bitterly; but Motikatika said: “It is only just that he should be eaten, and not I; for it was he, and not I, who sent you to fetch the water.”

Who acts: wife, Motikatika, mistake · What happens: find out, cry, say, be, send, fetch · To what, where: mistake, you, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Motikatika, mistake), 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	4 found	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	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 found	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mistake	det
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	10 cried	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 eaten	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 eaten	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eaten	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 eaten	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	26 eaten	advmod
21	just	just	ADV	_	26 eaten	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 eaten	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eaten	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 eaten	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 eaten	aux:pass
26	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 I	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 I	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 I	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 eaten	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 he	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 he	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 he	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 he	cop
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 sent	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 I	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 I	cc
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 I	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 he	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sent	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 sent	nsubj
42	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 sent	iobj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 fetch	mark
45	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sent	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 water	det
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fetch	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find out	past	boy's wife	the mistake			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	wife			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Motikatika				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	should · present · passive		mistake		eat property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	past	mistake			for Motikatika	tree rules
6	send in a quote	past	Motikatika		you		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	fetch in a quote	to-infinitive	Motikatika not said here	the water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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