The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 57
When the husband heard that he looked back and laughed, which the wife perceiving, she urged on the mare till she caught up with her husband, and asked him why he laughed.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: hear, look back, laugh, wife, perceive, urge · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 husband | det |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 urged | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laughed | cc |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wife | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laughed | ccomp |
| 15 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 wife | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 urged | nsubj |
| 18 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mare | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mare | det |
| 21 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 urged | obl |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 caught | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 caught | nsubj |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 urged | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 caught | compound:prt |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 husband | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asked | cc |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 urged | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | iobj |
| 33 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 laughed | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 laughed | nsubj |
| 35 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 asked | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the husband | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look back | past | husband | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | husband not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wife | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | perceive | gerund | the wife not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | urge | past | wife | on the mare | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | catch up | past | wife | with mare's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | past | wife not said here | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | laugh | past | husband | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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