The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 37
Next day the husband took his wife to the fields and showed her which were his, and which belonged to his mother.
Who acts: husband · What happens: take, show, be, belong · To what, where: wife, fields, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 husband | det |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 showed | cc |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 showed | iobj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 his | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 his | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 showed | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 belonged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 belonged | cc |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 belonged | nsubj |
| 20 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belonged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the husband | husband's wife | the fields | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to field=Destination | ||
| 2 | show | past | the husband not said here | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | husband | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | belong | past | to husband's mother | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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