The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 73
He has only one wife, and he cannot keep her in order.”
Who acts: master · What happens: have, not keep · To what, where: one wife, wife, order
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 (master), 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 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wife | nummod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 keep | advmod |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 has | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | master | one wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not keep | can | master | wife | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in order=Location |
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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