The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 56

The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers.

Who acts: poor wife, strength · What happens: be, have, rise, welcome · To what, where: strength, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor wife, strength), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 as	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	parataxis
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 strength	advmod
15	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rise	mark
18	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 welcome	cc
20	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 rise	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brothers	nmod:poss
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 welcome	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor wife		as way's husband; dead property	tree rules
2	have	past		strength	enough property	tree rules
3	rise	to-infinitive	strength not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	welcome	infinitive	strength not said here	way's brothers		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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