Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 210

Her husband was a common sailor, a fellow of a very hot temper, and had killed a sailor of Dragor; and he beat his wife, and yet she defended him.

Who acts: husband, fellow, few · What happens: be, kill, beat, defend · To what, where: common sailor, sailor, wife, husband

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, fellow, few), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sailor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sailor	amod
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fellow	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fellow	det
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailor	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 temper	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 temper	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 hot	advmod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 temper	amod
14	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fellow	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fellow	acl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sailor	det
20	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 killed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Dragor	case
22	Dragor	Dragor	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sailor	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 beat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beat	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 beat	nsubj
26	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sailor	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beat	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 defended	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 defended	cc
31	yet	yet	ADV	_	33 defended	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 defended	nsubj
33	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 beat	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 defended	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sailor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	few's husband	a common sailor			tree rules
2	kill	past · perfect	a fellow of a hot temper not said here	a sailor of Dragor			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme
3	beat	past	husband	husband's wife			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme
4	defend	past	few		husband	yet	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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