Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 93

His master's wife did not like his always going out in the evening, idling, wasting time, as she called it, and she shook her head.

Who acts: wife, father · What happens: not like, go out, idle, waste, call, shake · To what, where: window, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, father), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 master	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 like	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 idling	punct
16	idling	idle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 going	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wasting	punct
18	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 going	conj
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wasting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 called	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 like	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shook	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shook	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shook	nsubj
28	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 like	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shook	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	father's master's wife				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go out	gerund	father		evening	always property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	idle	gerund	father not said here				tree rules
4	waste	gerund	father not said here		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	call	past	wife	window			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
6	shake	past	wife	wife's head			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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