The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 78
When he entered his hut he found his wife, who had somehow heard the news, twisting herself to and fro and shedding tears.
Who acts: thief, wife · What happens: enter, find, hear, twist · To what, where: hut, wife, news, fro
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 (thief, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hut | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux |
| 13 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 14 heard | advmod |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wife | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 news | det |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 twisting | punct |
| 18 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | parataxis |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 twisting | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 fro | case |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fro | cc |
| 22 | fro | fro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twisting | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tears | cc |
| 24 | shedding | shedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tears | compound |
| 25 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fro | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | thief | thief's hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | thief | thief's wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | thief's wife | the news | somehow property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | twist | gerund | news | fro and shedding tears | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to fro=Trajectory |
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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