The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 96

Instantly the villagers went away and each caught hold of his own wife and throttled her, and the next day they all went off to sell their dead wives.

Who acts: villagers · What happens: go away, catch, throttle, go off, sell, hold · To what, where: wife, dead wives, own wife

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 (villagers), 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 villagers	det
3	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hold	cc
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hold	det
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hold	amod
9	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throttled	cc
15	throttled	throttle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 throttled	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl:unmarked
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 they	det
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 went	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sell	mark
27	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 went	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wives	nmod:poss
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wives	amod
30	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sell	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	the villagers			away, instantly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	throttle	past	the villagers not said here	wife			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	go off	past	villagers = villager		day		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
5	sell	to-infinitive	villagers = villager not said here	villagers's dead wives			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
6	hold			Goldsmith's own wife			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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: «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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