The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 82
Her husband felt anxious, and sent for the medicine man; but though she pretended to listen to him, she threw all his medicine out of the door directly he had gone away.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: feel, send, pretend, listen, throw, go away · To what, where: husband, medicine, door
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, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 threw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 threw | cc |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 pretended | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pretended | nsubj |
| 16 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 threw | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 listen | mark |
| 18 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pretended | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 listen | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pretended | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 threw | nsubj |
| 23 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 medicine | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 26 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 threw | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 threw | obl |
| 31 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 34 gone | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gone | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 gone | aux |
| 34 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 threw | advcl |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 gone | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | wife's husband | anxious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | participle | wife's husband not said here | for the medicine man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pretend | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | listen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | husband | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | wife | husband's medicine | the door | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme out door=Destination | |||
| 6 | go away | past · perfect | husband | away, directly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | medicine | husband | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: 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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