The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 44
When she was up and had dressed herself, her husband lay down in her place, saying: “You have given me a great deal of trouble, and now it is my turn!”
Who acts: husband, You, deal · What happens: dress up, lie down, say, give, be, deal · To what, where: wife, place, great deal, husband, turn, trouble · 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 (husband, You, deal), 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 | 7 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 dressed | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dressed | cc |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dressed | aux |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 dressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dressed | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 21 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 given | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 given | iobj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deal | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 deal | amod |
| 27 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trouble | case |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 deal | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 turn | cc |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 turn | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 turn | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 turn | cop |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 turn | nmod:poss |
| 36 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dressed | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 turn | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | past · perfect · passive | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie down | past | wife's husband | wife's place | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | wife's husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | present · perfect | You | a great deal of trouble | wife's husband = husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient deal=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | deal | my turn | now | tree rules | |||
| 6 | deal in a quote | trouble | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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