The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 21

He questioned his wife sharply, and told her that if she could not find and bring back the hairy man he would put her in a hut made of rushes and burn her there.

Who acts: king, wife · What happens: question, tell, not find, bring back, put, make · To what, where: wife, hairy man, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 questioned	nsubj
2	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 questioned	obj
5	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	2 questioned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 questioned	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 find	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 find	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bring	cc
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 find	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 bring	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 put	aux
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 man	acl:relcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hut	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hut	det
28	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hut	acl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 rushes	case
31	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 made	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 burn	cc
33	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 burn	obj
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 burn	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 questioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	king		king's wife		sharply property	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not find a condition, not said to happen	could	wife					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	bring back	infinitive	wife not said here		the hairy man			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
5	put	would	king	wife		a hut		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in hut=Destination
6	make	participle		a hut not said here			of rushes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	burn	infinitive	king not said here	wife		there		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=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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