The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 74

As soon as the man understood this, he got up out of the coffin, seized a stick, and called his wife into the room, saying: “Come, and I will tell you what you so much want to know”; and then he began to beat her with the stick, saying with each blow: “It is that, wife, it is that!”

Who acts: man, I, you, stick, wife · What happens: understand, get up, seize, call, say, come · To what, where: this, coffin, stick, wife, room, you · 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 (man, I, you, stick), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 got	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 understood	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understood	nsubj
6	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 understood	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 understood	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 got	compound:prt
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 coffin	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 coffin	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coffin	det
15	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seized	punct
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stick	det
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 called	advcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Come	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Come	punct
32	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 got	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tell	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 tell	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	aux
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 Come	conj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 want	obj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 want	nsubj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 much	advmod
42	much	much	ADV	_	43 want	advmod
43	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 know	mark
45	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 want	xcomp
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 know	punct
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 began	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 began	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 began	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 began	nsubj
51	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 beat	mark
53	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 began	xcomp
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 beat	obj
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 stick	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 stick	det
57	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 beat	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 saying	punct
59	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 began	advcl
60	with	with	ADP	_	62 blow	case
61	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	62 blow	det
62	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 saying	obl
63	:	:	PUNCT	_	67 that	punct
64	“	"	PUNCT	_	67 that	punct
65	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 that	nsubj
66	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 that	cop
67	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 got	obj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 wife	punct
69	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 that	nsubj
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 wife	punct
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 that	nsubj
72	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 that	cop
73	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 that	appos
74	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
75	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the man	this					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	get up	past	man			the coffin		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	seize	past	man not said here	a stick					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	call	past	man not said here	man's wife		the room			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Topic into room=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	gerund	man not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	come in a quote	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
8	want in a quote	present	you						tree rules
9	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	begin	past	man				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	beat	to-infinitive	man not said here	wife				with the stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with stick=Instrument
12	say speech: express	gerund	man not said here					with each blow	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with blow=Manner
13	is a in a quote	present	stick	that					tree rules
14	is a in a quote	present	wife	that					tree rules

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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