The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 105

He knew in an instant that his wife must have betrayed his trust, but he would not reproach her, as she must be suffering enough already.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: know, betray, not reproach, suffer, trust · To what, where: instant, wife

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 instant	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 instant	det
5	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 betrayed	obj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 betrayed	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 betrayed	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 betrayed	aux
11	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 instant	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 trust	nmod:poss
13	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 betrayed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reproach	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 reproach	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reproach	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 reproach	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 reproach	advmod
19	reproach	reproach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reproach	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 suffering	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 suffering	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 suffering	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 suffering	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 suffering	aux
26	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 reproach	conj
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 suffering	advmod
28	already	already	ADV	_	26 suffering	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	man		a instant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	betray	must · perfect	man's wife	a instant			tree rules
3	not reproach	would	man	wife			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	suffer	must · progressive	wife			enough property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	trust		man				nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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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