The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 76

When the goldsmith came back and found his wife dead he said nothing, but just took her outside into the dark lane and propped her up against the wall of his house, and then went into the courtyard and waited.

Who acts: goldsmith · What happens: come back, find, say, take, prop up, go · To what, where: nothing, wife, dark lane, wall, courtyard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldsmith), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goldsmith	det
3	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	ccomp
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	obj
19	outside	outside	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 lane	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lane	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lane	amod
23	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 propped	cc
25	propped	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 propped	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 propped	compound:prt
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 propped	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 house	nmod:poss
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wall	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 went	advmod
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 courtyard	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 courtyard	det
40	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 waited	cc
42	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 went	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the goldsmith					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	the goldsmith not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Goldsmith	nothing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	take	past	Goldsmith not said here	wife	the dark lane		outside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into lane=Destination
5	prop up	past	Goldsmith not said here	wife	the wall of Goldsmith's house			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme against wall=Destination
6	go	past			the courtyard	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location
7	wait	past						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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